Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Ken Wilcox > Sent: Monday, October 05, 1998 11:40 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Scratching eyeglasses > > > > Two months ago my dealer ordered a replacement standard M6 eye > ring for me. > It has not yet arrived, but when it does I plan to put it on my wife's M3, > The M3 ring is metal and the M6 ring is a soft rubber or plastic. > > Cheers! > > kw This thread and some others lately provide perfect illustration of why so few working pros now use M cameras - EIGHT WEEKS to get something as simple as the rubber ring for the viewfinder? An apparant inability to figure out how to provide an on/off switch for the meter - something virtually every other camera has had for years? $1700 for a body with 1/50th flash sync, a 1000th top speed, no TTL, when a Japanese startup can produce all those things for $410 - and I don't know whether or not the new Japanese body is or isn't junk...so charge $1000 for it and make sure it isn't. The point is, in the name of heritage and what we have grown use to, we put up with a tremendous amount of over-priced nonsense. Yes, I love my M, but come on...isn't there some way to convince Leitz to prepare for the Millenium? :-)