Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/08/07

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Subject: [Leica] Minor additional woe
From: leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 19:36:07 -0700
References: <5C7ABDCC-018D-4934-A61A-B9F9CB407EEB@acm.org> <F2DFBE7C-2CAC-4233-ACF9-F9FAA24EABA3@mac.com> <55C4D8D5.9040007@gmx.de>

Wait a minute, guys.  Before you condemn, give them a chance to make it
right. It doesn't matter what they call the department as long as they get
the job done.  We'll hear how it turns out, I am sure. 

Aram

Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired  Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
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?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself
would ever have dared dream.??? James D. Watson

-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Sharp [mailto:douglas.sharp at gmx.de] 
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 9:12 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Minor additional woe

AFAIK Marketing is now the top level and covers customer relations, repairs,
returns, complaints and technical matters.

Cheers
Douglas

On 07.08.2015 18:10, Adam Bridge wrote:
> Wait a moment here. Your support call was forward to MARKETING?
>
> This may be the most grim news out of Leica I?ve heard.
>
> How is this even remotely a marketing issue? It?s technical. It?s about a
change after a software update.
>
> Egad.
>
> Adam
>
>> On Aug 6, 2015, at 4:20 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
>>
>> As soon as I installed the new firmware in my M, the ?info? button
produced, in additional to the standard information, an ominous message in
red: ?Check battery age?.
>>
>> I called Leica tech support, my theory, in view of the expired firmware,
being that they sent me a camera that had been sitting a long time on the
shelf. But the tech guy said that the M (240) had not been in existence long
enough for a battery to elicit that message. (I wonder that what battery
characteristic the firmware is measuring). So he is fielding my complaint to
the marketing people and I await a phone call.
>>
>> Herb
>>
>> Herbert Kanner
>> kanner at acm.org
>> 650-326-8204
>>
>> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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