Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greetings to All, I just want to share my bad experience from Leica. I bought my Leica M6 TTL body with the 90 mm lens and Motor M last September. I was going for my Christmas holiday to another country and will be attending a family and friends' reunion last Christmas season and was about to bring along my Leica body and lens together with me when something happened. I didn't put my first roll 'til December as I was pretty confident that nothing's gonna happen with it. On my 3rd frame, after I can't cock the shutter anymore; when I opened tha camera back, I had to take out the unused film and saw for myself that the shutter was split into two. Well, it was split in a way that the other curtain was loose from some sort of a metal frame between the two shutter cloths (I believe it's the first and second curtain). I immediately took my camera to the agent to get it checked as I wasn't forcing anything on the virgin roll. To my surprise, the Leica technician said that it was a 'factory defect' and they will have to send the body to Germany for repair and was told that it will take 3 long months to get it back. I didn't even get the chance to see the result of the first film as it was already exposed. That really hurt me and wrote a mail to Mr. Horst Braun of Leica if I can get a brand new body as a replacement for the faulty body as I've never even put on the camera around my neck. I never got ANY response or comments from him or from anybody from Leica. 'Hope somebody's listening here from Leica to give some comments. Are you getting the same service from Leica? Mark __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html