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So I have a story to tell.
No not about a lovely lady bringing up three very lovely girls....
Tis a story about my Leica woes!
Here's the deal. I have an M6 that I have owned for about a year. I have noticed that I get scratches on the film. It is still up in the air about whether it is entirely the camera's fault, or if it is the lab's fault. I have had a few threads about it here before but the end result is that I have taken shot rolls and blank rolls never through the camera. The shot rolls had scratches, the blank roll didn't. That isn't to say that it wasn't just a fluke though because I don't get scratches every time anyways.
My other issue is that my M6 is a .85 non TTL version which seems to be about the most flair prone camera of all. I've experienced it many times and finally decided I would get the upgrade to help with the problem
After much searching and debating between DAG, Sherry and others, I decided to send the camera to Steve's Camera. He came highly recommended from some people on here as well as some friends of mine. I live in Southern California so the lack of lengthy shipping was also a plus I thought.
In April I sent the camera to him. Steve's a very nice guy listened to all of my issues. I told him to check the scratches and do a CLA since he would have the camera open for the scratches and rangefinder anyways. He said he would do it for a bit less since I was having it all done at once.
I told him I had a wedding to go to at the end of June and a trip in September planned so that was why I was sending it in early.
Well one week before wedding still no part from Leica for the rangefinder upgrade. He was out and had ordered one for me. He called Leica and they told him that the part was made in Germany, received in New Jersey, but there was a problem and they had to do another one. It would be another month most likely.
I said I really needed the camera and could he send it back to me until the part was in. He went ahead and did the full CLA and looked at the advance but said he found no problems with it but that the cla should take care of any scratching. He overnighted the camera to me at my request and at my cost and I got it the day before I left for the wedding.
Film processed and scratches still! Great.
I have kept the camera because I want to use the thing and they said it would be a month for the part and I could send it back then to have the part put in. He would only charge me for the part, not the labor to open it all back up and do it again.
I called this week, a month and a half later and they said they would call Leica and call me back. They called back the next day to say still no part from Leica and no eta on when it will be finished.
So essentially at this point I have paid for a full CLA of a camera that worked perfectly fine to begin with other than scratches. I still have scratches, and the rangefinder upgrade that was the other main reason for sending it in is no where to be seen. I feel like so far I have wasted $250 or whatever it was, wasted express over night shipping costs of $30 or so all to have a camera that is exactly the same as when I bought it a year ago. Not to mention I was without the camera from April til the end of June.
I have a feeling I could have sent the camera to DAG or Sherry who may have had the part in stock and had a camera back and going strong in May!!!
I realize that scratches are very hard to locate if you can't see anything physically wrong with the camera and I also realize that Leica's production issues are out of Steve's hands as well. I am not really angry with him in all of this, I just wish I could get some sort of resolution with Leica.
If they had to manufacture the part the last time, are they saying they only made the exact amount to fill the orders they had, they didn't now how to check the quality control to realize that mine was defective, and they have to take an additional 2 months or longer to make a new one again?!?!?! They did a damn production run for the things. They didn't have a single spare one made to ship immediatly when New Jersey realized the first one was bad?
No not about a lovely lady bringing up three very lovely girls....
Tis a story about my Leica woes!
Here's the deal. I have an M6 that I have owned for about a year. I have noticed that I get scratches on the film. It is still up in the air about whether it is entirely the camera's fault, or if it is the lab's fault. I have had a few threads about it here before but the end result is that I have taken shot rolls and blank rolls never through the camera. The shot rolls had scratches, the blank roll didn't. That isn't to say that it wasn't just a fluke though because I don't get scratches every time anyways.
My other issue is that my M6 is a .85 non TTL version which seems to be about the most flair prone camera of all. I've experienced it many times and finally decided I would get the upgrade to help with the problem
After much searching and debating between DAG, Sherry and others, I decided to send the camera to Steve's Camera. He came highly recommended from some people on here as well as some friends of mine. I live in Southern California so the lack of lengthy shipping was also a plus I thought.
In April I sent the camera to him. Steve's a very nice guy listened to all of my issues. I told him to check the scratches and do a CLA since he would have the camera open for the scratches and rangefinder anyways. He said he would do it for a bit less since I was having it all done at once.
I told him I had a wedding to go to at the end of June and a trip in September planned so that was why I was sending it in early.
Well one week before wedding still no part from Leica for the rangefinder upgrade. He was out and had ordered one for me. He called Leica and they told him that the part was made in Germany, received in New Jersey, but there was a problem and they had to do another one. It would be another month most likely.
I said I really needed the camera and could he send it back to me until the part was in. He went ahead and did the full CLA and looked at the advance but said he found no problems with it but that the cla should take care of any scratching. He overnighted the camera to me at my request and at my cost and I got it the day before I left for the wedding.
Film processed and scratches still! Great.
I have kept the camera because I want to use the thing and they said it would be a month for the part and I could send it back then to have the part put in. He would only charge me for the part, not the labor to open it all back up and do it again.
I called this week, a month and a half later and they said they would call Leica and call me back. They called back the next day to say still no part from Leica and no eta on when it will be finished.
So essentially at this point I have paid for a full CLA of a camera that worked perfectly fine to begin with other than scratches. I still have scratches, and the rangefinder upgrade that was the other main reason for sending it in is no where to be seen. I feel like so far I have wasted $250 or whatever it was, wasted express over night shipping costs of $30 or so all to have a camera that is exactly the same as when I bought it a year ago. Not to mention I was without the camera from April til the end of June.
I have a feeling I could have sent the camera to DAG or Sherry who may have had the part in stock and had a camera back and going strong in May!!!
I realize that scratches are very hard to locate if you can't see anything physically wrong with the camera and I also realize that Leica's production issues are out of Steve's hands as well. I am not really angry with him in all of this, I just wish I could get some sort of resolution with Leica.
If they had to manufacture the part the last time, are they saying they only made the exact amount to fill the orders they had, they didn't now how to check the quality control to realize that mine was defective, and they have to take an additional 2 months or longer to make a new one again?!?!?! They did a damn production run for the things. They didn't have a single spare one made to ship immediatly when New Jersey realized the first one was bad?
