Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry, last post on topic until I have more info. We have over 10 recently purchased (i.e last 6 months) new M6s scratching on my reckoning - that's including LUGers who have, or have tried, more than 1 body. My guess is - even with the size of this list - that that is a statistically significant number of new M6s purchased on the list. Few people buy Leicas unless they are experienced and keen photographers (either that or speculators, I suppose). The quality of posts raising this problem are a testament to that. I think the list should give those raising the problem their due. We are not imagining it. Nor falsely attributing cause. The last place I wanted to lay blame was my new, and already beloved, Leica. No-one is saying that Leica's are not great cameras. They clearly are. Nor that all Leicas scratch film - it seems to be only some (and I emphasize, some) very recent M6s. Perhaps a particular production run of pressure plates. And, interestingly enough, I think that most of the users with the problem are Leica converts despite the scratching. I know I am. I am thirsting to get my hands back on my M6 minus scratching problem. And posting, or reading, the email dispatching this problem once and for all. Gareth Jolly - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 2:19 Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 Film Scratching >At 10:24 PM 4/12/99 -0500, you wrote: >>I would imagine Leica would be monitoring this list. I would like them to >>know that there is at least one prospective buyer of a M6HM-TTL that will >>not proceed further until this matter is resolved. > >What has been established? That one camera scratches film? Or a couple? I >have yet to find a Leica I've owned that has scratched film. And I've owned >a bunch of them. :-) > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > >Today's subliminal thought is...