Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Meyer wrote: > > To: >INTERNET:Leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Statements like these have been circulating: > > >> ...the frame counters of 75% of M6s are breaking in the first 5 > >> years of ownership... > > >> In short, if you buy a later M6 like the ones made in 1995-1996, > >> you have a 50% chance of getting a problematic M6... > > They are utterly unjustified. Twenty-six cameras (out of how > many made by Leica?) over eleven years of production, or six cameras > over two years, do not constitute a statistically significant > sample. No conclusions about overall failure rates of Leicas can > reliably be drawn from so small a basis. Please stop trying. If > you want to make claims based on statistics, get meaningful ones -- > survey thousands of owners, or try to get the facts on repair rates > from Leica service. > > -- Eric Meyer. Eric, Are you a statistican? I am not, but often quite small samples are valid. But I think the intent was to get a feeling of the experiences of the listmembers regarding this. Dennis - -- Experience is a tough teacher. It gives the test before the lesson. - -unknown