Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon Woes (why you should buy leica)
From: Pete Su <psu_13@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:42:40 -0800 (PST)

- --- Gary Klein <leicaman_99@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Leica Folks,
> 
> The below is why you want to buy Leica gear.
> 
> You'd think that getting a lousy 50mm f1.8 repaired by Canon would be so
> hard.  I sent my 50mm f1.8 EF lens into the Jamesburg Canon repair facility.
> Mind you this is NOT FD stuff, EOS stuff.  Listen to this lousy excuse from
> them about the lens:...

Considering that a new 50/1.8 lens probably costs half of what the average lens
repair costs, I'm not sure why you would even want to get it repaired.

Of course, the Leica summicron costs about 10 times what the Canon lens costs,
so it makes sense to get it repaired if it breaks.

Pete


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