Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Usually I just lurk, but I find myself in a situation where I want ( I hesitate to say need :-) )to get a different SLR. Last year, as a creative journey I wanted to take, I traded my EOS 1n for an all but unused F1. The journey lead me back to my M6, but I'll save the details for another post should anyone be interested. I have things narrowed down to an R8, an F3 which comes with some great glassware, or a new EOS body with a 28 to 70 f2.8 L lens. I need an SLR because I do a lot of close ups of flowers. (I've heard, by the way, that the Leica 60mm macro is a hell of a lens.) Metering is a key issue for me. I believe that photography is really paining and writing with light, and I do a lot of work in tough lighting situations. A great deal of my stuff is back lit. What am I getting into if I get the R8 and the 28 to 80 mm zoom. One of the best cameras in the world? Or a piece of overpriced jewelry not made in Germany by a company who can do nothing right and who is on the verge of going out of business equipped with a with a Sigma lens that only someone with more money than brains would buy all of which will brand me as an idiot who can't manage his money when he is seen in public with it? Barney Pascal wrote: > On 01-05-2001 01:58, tm wrote: > > >These findings are intolerable! These two lenses cost me approximately > >$5,000 and Leica dared send them out with these anomalies????? Does anybody > >else herein have horror stories about sickening findings in recent Leica > >product purchases they would like to vent? > > Right Terry, this is not excusable but there is hardly anything we as a > LUG can do about it. > > If what you paid $$$ for does not offer you 100% satisfaction, return it > to Leica for servicing or exchange. That's what I have had to do for > several items as well. Leica is quite receptive and willing to adjust > what went wrong. > > Pascal > NO ARCHIVE > > --------- > Visit my Leica photo pages at http://members.nbci.com/cyberplace > --------- > <<< PGP public key available upon request >>>