[Leica] fantastic collectors opportunity

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Nov 24, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote:

>> Actually Alastair, the fix for the "magenta" issue is the use of  
>> the IR
>> filter so our M8s are not going to be changed in that regard.  My  
>> problem
>> is
>> going to be having to give it up for the 10 days (plus shipping)  
>> that it
>> will take to get the banding/blobbing/ghosting issue resolved.  In  
>> the two
>> weeks that I have had my M8, it has not been out of my possession  
>> for a
>> single day - it is addictive!   You know, if you average a roll of  
>> film
>> per
>> day, the M8 is free at the end of a year.  :)
>>
>> Bill in Denver
>
> Yes, but keep that first firmware, and you will have a unique  
> collectors
> piece ;-) Yeah, I'm of course using "magenta" for the "woes" in  
> general. I
> had great fun on the beach with the 90 elmar c yesterday, and it  
> makes the
> Tri-elmar far more useable than it was before. Quite addictive indeed.
>
> Cheers and good luck: if you think you have problems, shipping it back
> from Oz will see it gone for ages :-(


why must it be shipped back to update the firmware?

Steve
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> Alastair
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