Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/05

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Scratching eyeglasses
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:37:10 -0400

> -----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?
:-)