Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/24

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]
Subject: Re: Advice on a trade
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 07:12:34 -0500
 
>Not to get to far off topic but alas the Nikon meters like the DP-12
>weren't built to last forever.  They are having a very large failure
>rate from old age and are not repairable.

The meters with the "ring resistor" such as the DP-1 have the high failure
rate; the DP-3 and DP-12 are very reliable.  They may not be repairable, but
nothing ever happens to them.