Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/06

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: M8 Mishap
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun Jul 6 09:49:06 2008
References: <200807060615.m666Fat8033991@server1.waverley.reid.org> <52FFFE7D-6ECC-4C71-BD71-0F8CD4B4005C@droolassicpark.com>

Charlie,
All of them at that price point. Probably in much better shape as well.
Don't compare apples to oranges.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Charlie Meyer <charlie@droolassicpark.com>
wrote:

> Tina-
>
> Glad you're all right.  As unsightly/sore as the bruising is (and a much
> more qualified member, a physician, has already weighed in on that score),
> something needs to be said about the M8, this being the LUG and all.
>
> I don't have an M8, and probably will never afford such a tool in my
> lifetime, but after all the grief the M8 has received, how many
> clad-in-the-finest-cheap-Red-Chinese-plastic-obsolete-three-months-after-release-DSLRs
> could have stayed working after a similar incident? I think it says a
> lot...that a Leica is still a Leica. The counsel for Leica's ad agency 
> would
> add the fine print: "Professional photographer. Do not attempt."
>
> FWIW: I'd be courting with cardiac arrest if something similar had happened
> to one of my AARP Card carrying DS M3s. :P
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 6, 2008, at 2:15 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>  PESO:
>>
>> I'm in California hiking in the Sierra Nevada mountains and have not had
>> e-mail for over a week.  We've had a wonderful trip and I've taken many
>> photos with my two M8's but on Tuesday, we were hiking near Southfork Lake
>> in the John Muir Wilderness when I stumbled over a rock and fell face 
>> first
>> onto my M8.  I broke my nose but the M8 is fine, as far as I can tell and
>> I've continued to take photos with it in spite of two very black eyes.  
>> Can
>> you see the imprint of the M8 on my face?
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/image/99734652
>>
>> I look even worse today as all of the colors are more vivid and spreading
>> over most of my face.  We'll be back home on Wednesday with a week to
>> recuperate before I head off for Honduras.  I'm still having nightmares
>> about falling on my M8 though!!!
>>
>> More photos later.
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> Tina Manley
>> www.tinamanley.com
>>
>>
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> Charlie Meyer
> West Virginia Coordinator
> Basset Rescue of Old Dominion, Inc. (BROOD)
> Droolassic Park
> Keyser, WV
>
> Basset Hound Rescue: Work With Women. Pick Up Dogs.
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] IMG: M8 Mishap)
Message from charlie at droolassicpark.com (Charlie Meyer) ([Leica] IMG: M8 Mishap)