Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > My M8 and DMR are definitely ready for my Prime Time. Yet, I always > take back-up cameras (including film), meters, and lights on the job. > Why? because in 45 years of photography I've experienced view camera > shutter, Hasselblad, Nikon F, strobe, and light meter failure. The > only cameras that I've owned which never failed: M2, M3 and two M6's. > Yet, I've read on this list that others have experienced failure of > those models as well. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george@imagist.com > > > > On Aug 27, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > >> I had amost made up my mind to buy an M8. Now I am really spooked. >> How many new M8s work perfectly out of the box? What's with sending >> these new cameras back to Solms or New Jersey? Thirty minutes >> uptime on a new camera is unacceptable. Especially with the >> "jumping through hoops" process of getting a failed camera repaired. >> >> Based on the complaints posted in the LUG, the M8 is not ready for >> prime time. Tell me it's just the squeeky wheel syndrome. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Since the M8 came out its had problems which people have worked successfully around. At this point I've got my Leica m system for when I use 35mm film which is not that often so far but that's going to change.. But have been shooting Nikon digital DSLRs. Talking too much about them on the LUG I know. I have a D200 and a D40 and one will back up the other. Which is first string I don't know. MY D100 I don't want to look at I'm pretending it don't have it. May have it converted to IR. Rarely am I going to shoot anything which has to come out paid or otherwise without a backup. Cameras "lock up". They stop working. You put in a battery and the battery has never been charged. Or will no longer you find out take a charge. So you have the other camera with a battery in it which works. In this case a different battery. So I cant just take the battery out of the backup camera and put it into my so called main camera. A good and bad thing both maybe. A camera makes a very large battery holder. There are better battery holders on the market I'm sure. Mark William Rabiner Harlem, NY rabinergroup.com