give them hard use, sometimes to destruction. (If someone wants some mangled
Spotmatic parts I may be able to find the body I dropped off the cliff). The
only problem I've had with an LX came after a CLA. I know other people have
had problems with LX's but from there litany of ills it almost seems like they have
a different model camera. Maybe it's a quality control problem, how else
to you reconcile P�l's experience with William Robb's experiences. But you don't
have to run down a product with every breath, Alan has been doing that since I've
been paying attention to his posts. I usually don't comment on it but sometimes I
just get tired and testy.
At 10:20 AM 3/10/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Peter Alling schrieb: > > Alan you're beginning to become like Bruce. The changes I know of to the > LX were all improvements > I don't have one of the earliest models but my 18+ year old body has been > about as reliable as my > 5 year old model. Both are particularly solid and reliable.
Hm, I dunno!
I bought an LX with winder in 1985 and it jammed 6 month later. Got repaired within several weeks(!), failed another six month later. Then I got it back with some strange new properties: e.g. the shutter wasn't able to do times longer than 1/75 with winder or motor attached (I thought it was the winder's fault, and bought the motor...*g*) Got fixed again, then jammed again. After that they just gave me a new body without any further comments(!) - must have been 1988 or 1989. Now I had this nice button to switch metering on! :-) But I can tell you: I was quite close to jump the ship! If I hadn't had the glass and my K2-DMD...
The new body has been working flawlessly until april 2001. Then the sticky mirror appeared with it's infinity-focus problems. I got myself the MZ-3 then... After I recently found Rob's website describing the problem, I got my LX fixed again and am quite happy to have it in working condition. But I really can't recall if my happy moments with the LX make up for the damn frustrating moments...at least, it always failed when I was at home. Never on my travels...*g*
Thomas
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