[Leica] Fwd: Re: Why Pros in general and us mateurs do NOT or SHOULD NOT use Leica......

Frank Filippone red735i at verizon.net
Fri Oct 7 04:43:27 PDT 2016


Your M2 will probably live forever, albeit with minor servicing.

My estimation is that Leica is an Optical and mechanical company.  It is NOT an electronics company.

The Sony A7 is a brilliantly conceived camera.  Sony is an electronics company.
Sony is not an optical company.  They contracted with Zeiss (an optical company) to make some of the lenses, and the result is good.

Making the crossover between one basic corporate technology or skill set or mind set and another is very difficult.  
Finding a strategy to accomplish the crossover is fraught with many impediments, eats up gobs of resources, and sometimes bankrupts companies brain and financial pools.


Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net


Indeed. I was planning to buy a second-hand M9 or M240 at some point, but with stories like this, I am put off buying any modern Leica body. The M2 I have seems reliable enough ;-)

It is sad to see that Leica has lost its way with quality control, apparently.
For the record, I started taking photography seriously in 1985 and bought my first digital camera in 2004. During those years I have owned equipment from Pentax, Ricoh, Fuji, Canon, Leica, Panasonic, Hasselblad, Mamiya, Rollei. The only brand that I have had to send for repair is Leica. This does not mean that I do not enjoy shooting with Leica--I do--just as I enjoyed driving the BMW I had in Belgium in the 1990s even though it left me stranded at the side of the road more often than any other car I have owned.

Cheers,




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