Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica Build Quality
From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 18:06:40 +0000

>Hi LUGGERS,
>I am sorry to report that the rangefinder in my M6HM TTL has gone out of
>alignment again! Some of you may recall that I purchased the camera the end
>of May and took it for a tweaking of the viewfinder in late June, prior to
>6 weeks of excellent picture taking in England, Scotland and North America.
>Since being back in  Hong Kong I have not used the HM until this weekend
>and when I took it out of the drybox and checked infinity focussing out the
>window - at infinity the double images again did not come together. Now I
>know I will have this fixed in 10 minutes with a smile at Schmidt (local
>Leica agent) in the building next to my office but I do find it irritating
>all the same. My M6 from 1987 and my M6HM from June 1998 never had any
>rangefinder problems. 
>Best Regards
>Howard Cummer.
>

If it does not work out again, maybe you should exchange your camera for a
new M6 HM TTL.

Dan K.
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