Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/15

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Subject: [Leica] M8 on the way back to NJ
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Tue May 15 18:26:00 2007

Flash? Who uses flash?

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jerry
Lehrer
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:27 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 on the way back to NJ


Jeff,

I hate to tell you this, but your 3.5E Rolleiflex is pre-wired to accept 
the Rollei exposure meter
as an add-on.

I dunno 'bout your M4, but mine has wires leading to the flash terminals.

Jerry


Jeffery Smith wrote:
> I truly appreciate my M4 and Rolleiflex 3.5E now. Not a wire in them.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
> Slobodan Dimitrov
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 6:12 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 on the way back to NJ
>
>
> This is reminiscent of the problems Rollei had when they first went
> 'electronic'!
> Some dealers told me they almost went bankrupt trying to cover the  
> problems, and calm the tempers of customers.
>
> Slobodan Dimitrov
>
>
>
>
> On May 14, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>
>   
>> Well, the error-prone M8 is on its way back to NJ. The president
>> (Horn) said
>> that they would send me a new one. Over the past few weeks, I have
>> been
>> scouring the web for possible fixes. I found one poor fellow whose M8
>> shutter appeared to be tearing vertically, from bottom to top(!).
>>
>> Glad that I don't need to wait for something to return from Solms.
>>
>>
>>     


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