Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Didier ,your was the worth ever with the R-d1!, On 11/29/06, Didier Ludwig <rangefinder@screengang.com> wrote: > Lovable? My conclusion first: I would not buy it again, and I would not > recommend to any LUGger to buy neither a new nor a used one. > > I bought mine in may 06 from Robert White in UK. RF was out of alignment > at infinity and at close up. Sent it to Epson Switzerland (whose service > department is outsourced to a company where they had never seen such a > camera before). Got the camera back after 7 (!) weeks - poorly packaged, > disalignment even worse than before. Did not have the nerves to send it > back to them, so I sent it on my costs to DAG Wisconsin, who did a fine > job within a few days. After some more time I noticed almost all of my > pictures were tilted. I inspected the camera again, and found out the > sensor ist not built in correctly - it's tilted, clearly visible by eye > when opening the shutter with B! And to make framing even more tricky, the > framelines are slightly tilted, too - the other way! Not enough, I had a > massive hot pixel issue (correction did not help much), and the batteries > (new, original) did not work for more than 75-100 shots while it should be > 250 (Raw+jpg, LCD off, shortest energy saving! > time). I contacted RW in UK and described my problems. They wrote to > Epson UK and did not receive a satisfactory answer within two > months(!!)... Now I lost my patience and shipped the camera back to RW. > Don't know what will happen. Probably it's gonna take months. Maybe they > can repair it, maybe they replace it, maybe I get the same lemon back. Or > another lemon. > > I regret having spent that money as I got no value for it. Definitely feel > cheated. > > Happy to use the M6 again, but very angry about the crappy QC and service > of Epson. These guys would have better stayed with consumer printers and > inks, where people do not care that much about quality and service as > Leica users do. > > The digital M would have come anyway, if R-D1 or not. > > Didier > > > >...The RD1 was (is) in my view a lovable dog. > >Howard (in HK) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad