Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On: > The >>>only person I know who believes the M6 is as well constructed as the M4 >>>and before is Marc. While he might be proved correct in the long run, >>>he certainly seems to be in the minority opinion. At 11:52 10.03.1998 +0100, Erwin Puts wrote: >You forget me. I have posted numerous emails trying to explain these facts. - -- snip Erwin, Marc, and other dear members of the (LUG) minority - what happened ? Understanding why a certain event takes place doesn't change the character of the event. A broken brandnew Leica is still a broken Leica, no matter whether you understand the context or not. To say it simple: you pay for quality and you want quality. Almost all of us need to put bills on small mountains for a long long time to finally afford some Leica gear. So, whatever conditions are to understood, Solm's failure is not tolerated. Law says the same: if you kill someone by accident, you are still responsible. >But to paraphrase Marc: truth is a commodity not always popular these days. Yes. Yes. Yes. I also agree to this statement, but our standpoints are complertely different. I'm not interested in their problems or whatever, specially if I would unpack a broken M or R Leica. The problems belong to Solms. All. They are all their business. They have to find sufficient solutions. I want a working camera. And, besides, I pay for it. >Modern production techniques and computercontrolled machining of parts is >preferable to the old way of crafting the product. Exactly that statement in this context still needs to be proved. By facts, not by anecdotes. >The discussion of the merits of leica bodies has a close parallel to the >discussion about Leica lenses: old has often been stated to be better, but >objective measurements disprove it time after time. This may be true - at least from a certain standpoint. But, the pronounciation of certain parameters does not describe the total. With the same enthusiasm you may describe the large amount of proteines in a certain mushroom and forget, that its poison is deadly - unfortunately. I know, that I sound intolerant, stubborn, ignorant, arogant, and polemic - more intolerant by far than Marvin, who still tries to stay polite, and just asks on Guido Ridoli's repeated R8 disaster: "Is this the answer to where they go?" To make myself clear: Even a ratio of 0.001 percent would not put a happy smile on my face if I hold a brandnew broken Leica in my hands. I'm not interested in Solm's problems, I even don't want to know them. A brandnew broken Leica is still a broken Leica. Period, as Eric says. Alf (happy user of working Leitz & Leica gear since 33 years) - -------------------------------------------------- Alfred Breull e-mail: <puma@hannover.sgh-net.de> website: <http://members.aol.com/abreull/index.htm>