Jeffery Smith wrote:
Amazingly, the people on the LUG who had faulty M8 bodies made excuses for
the camera (as in "I have no problem as long as I remove and replace the
battery before every shot", or "Mine sometimes requires turning off and on
a dozen times before the shutter will work."). The pro photographers on the
LUG got great service. The amateur photographers are treated as nobodies. I
had no difficulty finding others with bad M8 samples. I googled the words
"M8 shutter fault" when my first body crapped out, and got numerous hits.
When the second one had memory card problems, I had no trouble finding the
"fix", i.e., remove and replace the battery before every shot.
Some of those who claim to never have had a problem are the same ones to
say that when their M8/M9 died, the customer service was wonderful. How
would they know that unless they had to return it.
I have never had a Pentax that died on me, and I have had five Pentax film
cameras and now five Pentax digital cameras. And if a Pentax had died, it
would not be something that kept me awake at night for weeks at a time.
There is no worse feeling than paying off a $4,000 debt on a Visa for a
non-functioning camera that is sitting in a drawer.
Jeffery
Hah.
I have wondered what all the Leica M9 fuss was about, and since I didn’t
currently own and will never own a Leica again, I put off reading this thread.
Until this morning!
My, my my.
I was a Retina man for a long time, then moved to Olympus OMs, then to Pentax
M-bodies, then back to Olympus OMs.
I have had perhaps 8 of each, and still have most of them.
Never a spot of trouble that wasn’t explained so I could fix it, or that was
factory fixed promptly. On any one of them.
I‘ve only owned a single Leica, a IIIc as I recall, and soon sold it as too
much money for a top quality but exceedingly cumbersome film camera.
In all my work, I have found Olympus lenses marvelous.
Pentax never has disappointed me, bodies or lenses.
Considering what Leica charge, for what they give back, service ought to be
next to free and carry a speedy turn around.
Leica excellence is not magic. It used to be used to be formidable factory
attention to detail.
Now, it’s little more than a name, for which one pays far, FAR too much.
And now it’s crappy service...
Every post I read confirms my long held opinions about Leica. It’s glory days
are long over.
keith whaley
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