Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Even NASA has had troubles with no expense spared camera gear costing a few orders of magnitude more. I work(ed) in the automotive repair field and I have never found any correlation between money spent and reliability. John Collier On Aug 23, 2004, at 4:25 AM, Beddoe, Neil wrote: > If this was a ?200 consumer zoom I might agree that you could expect a > few > teething problems. I don't think they are to be expected from a > ?1,500 one. > > On Behalf Of John Collier > > Well I am back from Ireland and the Summilux is now going back to its > makers to hopefully sort out a few problems with it focusing and > rangefinder coupling. The stickiness when going from 0.7m to infinity > stopped getting better and the rangefinder images did not quite meet at > infinity. I will let you know when it gets back, if they did anything > and if what they did fixed the problems. > > Still basically happy as I am not surprised that the first series of a > new product would have some teething problems.