So, I briefly owned a Leica, for Panasonic values of Leica. I saw a friend last weekend who asked if I was interested in a broken Leica. My first thought was that it was some old film era Leica that no longer worked, but which might still have a usable lens. Long story short, it turns out it was a V-Lux4, aka a Lumix FZ-200 pimped out with a red dot. It had been given to them, but when they turned it on they got some error message, they tried contacting Leica about getting it repaired and Leica said “It’s too old we don’t even touch those any more”.
My friend dropped it off, the error message was that the clock needed to be set, and there was some weirdness such that after I set the clock, I couldn’t leave that menu, but when I power cycled it, it powered up and worked fine. So I texted my friend that it seems to be fine, do they want it back, and it’s going home sometime in the next day or so. But now, I can claim to be a member of that elite group of photographers who have owned a Leica. Woo Hoo! -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
