Re: More fun with the Leica M8
- From: Greggor Campbell <gcampbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:50:04 -0500
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:51:11 -0400, Böwser <its@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
OK, I think it's time to nominate the Leica M8 as "Turkey of the Decade."
http://photo.net/leica-rangefinders-forum/00QTrU
Aparently, if you mount this thing on a tripod and shoot vertically, it
falls apart. Yes, really.
My sympathies to any of you who shelled out $5K for this trash.
From:
http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-m8-forum/25121-base-plate-failure-15.html#post632457
I inserted some missing currency conversions.
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"Quoted today repair estimate...
Well, I got the reply from Leica about my camera with broken bottom plate.
Talked to the importer today, and they quoted Leica HQ's repair estimate at
NOK 6,726 plus VAT = NOK 8,407.50 ( equivalent to USD 1,553.11)
Quite a bill... Includes labour NOK 5,636 (USD $1,041.40), material NOK 840 (USD
$155.21), shipping NOK 250 (USD $46.17) plus VAT (25%). Comments were "Impact
damage. A piece of the camera housing is broken off." Also got the same on the
snail mail today. I knew it would be frustrating when the 'repair charge' would
be quoted, since the 'impact damage' all happened while the camera was swiveling
on the tripod, and I consider this to be of normal use. The camera was never
dropped so the body shell is scratch free. My Norwegian importer says this was
'the first such case' they have seen. Well, I tried to be as impartial as
possible on my reporting to the forum of what happened. So there. Think need to
cool off my head.
oslo terry"
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Total cost for the body alone is now well in excess of $6,500, and it still
takes crappy photos worse than any $100 P&S camera. That's true for 100% of all
M8s, the cracking body only happens to some, so far. After that repair cost it
still has the body defect that will crack again if you put it on a tripod in
portrait orientation, which Leica conveniently calls abnormal use / abuse of the
camera.
Four forum participants have so far reported the same problem (a fraction of a
percent of all M8 owners), and also reported to Leica who claim they've never
heard of this happening before.
7,080 hits if you do a Google search with:
leica m8 (baseplate OR base-plate OR latch OR shell OR cover) (cracked OR broken
OR failure)
This is the sign of a company trying to undermine itself and call it quits. The
CEOs must be transferring funds into something more lucrative today, like their
pockets.
Anyone getting their M8 repaired only brings to mind that saying about a fool
throwing their good money after bad. A repaired cracked body isn't going to fix
those useless images that it creates.
.
- References:
- More fun with the Leica M8
- From: Böwser
- More fun with the Leica M8
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