Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm not sure that what you say is true Seth. First, there was no LUG or LEG or any other world wide e-mail instant information users groups back in the days of Leitz. You are equating problems that LUGgers have had with Solms vs problems with equipment out of Leitz. To quote a recent mantra, "what is your source of information and how reliable is it?" I strongly suspect extrapolated hearsay. He said she said... Any company that uses human beings to manufacture a product will have a certain percentage of failures that actually make it out the door. From Yugo to Rolls Royce, from Petri to Leica, from hang gliders to Space Shuttles. I will bet that Leica's faux pas are still in the same percentage as Leitz's faux pas. Only they are more visible now. Leica's faux pas may even be less. Sort of like war. Now there are TV cameras on the front lines so that the world can see everything as it happens. During WW-I or WW-II the world didn't have a clue and only selected information ever got out. Jim At 03:54 PM 5/18/01 -0400, SthRosner@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 5/17/01 4:42:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >henry@henryambrose.com writes: > ><< The new Leica lenses are the best lenses ever made. >> > >Henry, you must not be reading the unsettling reports of quality control >problems a lot of LUGGERS are having with brand-new equipment out of Solms. >While on very rare occasion a piece of equipment had to be returned or >repaired, there was never this level of frightening quality problems from >Leitz Wetzlar. Contact Tom.Henson@baker botts.com who has reported his horror >stories here. > >Seth LaK 9