Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/25

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Subject: [Leica] M7 repair advice sought
From: montoid at earthlink.net (Montie Talbert)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:50:13 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

Call Sherry and let her look it over.  IMO, $1200 bucks for that repair 
seems like over-kill!!

Montie


Peter wrote:

>>Leica Japan quoted me over 100,000 yen to repair my M7.  Wow. They said 
>>the LED is inaccurate (I never found that to be so, but things happen), 
>>and the shutter speeds are wrong.  That is why I sent it in to them, I 
>>wish they told me their diagnosis of why the shutter speeds are wrong.  

Basically it was working fine a week before I noticed the problem.  2 
perfectly exposed rolls of Velvia showed there was no problem.  Then a week 
later I picked up the M7, dry fired it, and noticed the speeds were off.  
Two weeks after the camera store's 6 month warranty expired.  I only bought 
this camera in June 2010, and really don't want to pay such a big repair 
bill on it already.

Now I have this hefty repair quote.  I'm thinking maybe it would be cheaper 
to send to Sherry Krauter, or DAG.  Any ideas?  


Peter Cheyne