[Leica] bad news and good news about the R-D1

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

I'd consider an R-D1 if Epson showed that they were in this for the long
haul - release a few more models, expand distribution and marketing and
what not. 

Richard wrote:

> As you may recall, I sent the R-D1 in for repair since the battery 
> gauge does not move beyond the middle position. I know all if not most 
> people who sent in their cameras in for repair got a new camera, but 
> since most of the reported problems are with the rangefinder, the 
> Epson customer support person thought that with a gauge problem, they 
> should be able to fix it.
>
> The bad news is that they did send me a new camera. This doesn't bode 
> well since when the warranty expires, this means that most likely we 
> will have to rely on 3rd party to fix anything. Someone just reported 
> on the photo.net site that DAG did fix his camera's rangefinder 
> problem but this is disturbing in that sense.
>
> Oh well, I guess just have to take lots of pictures before warranty 
> expires :-)
>
> The good news is that now I have 3 batteries and they are very 
> difficult to get a hold of :-). Also, the serial # of the new camera 
> is one of those extremely lucky number in Chinese numerology!
>
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
> please use richard at imagecraft.com)
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