drneilgoodwin Posted June 17, 2016 Share #1 Posted June 17, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) I have a small but irritating fault with my M240. The shutter speed dial is not aligned to the White indicator line on the top of the camera. So, to set it to 'A' it has to have the 8s aligned with the indicator line, i.e two up from A: and if I want B then I have to have 4000 aligned with the indicator line. In summary it's two numbers out all the time wh,en setting the speed. Sins too much trouble when turning the dial whilst looking through the viewfinder but it's irritating when trying to set the speed w ithou.t looking through the viewfinder. Has as anyone else had this problem with their 240 or is it just poor quality control on my camera. Before it left the factory? Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jaapv Posted June 17, 2016 Share #2 Posted June 17, 2016 A typical Leica QC fault. It should not be too difficult for CS to correct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ricoh Posted June 17, 2016 Share #3 Posted June 17, 2016 Typical did you say? (rhet), This should not be the case from a premium brand camera, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 19, 2016 Share #4 Posted June 19, 2016 Haha, you must have missed the threads about upside-down focus rings, missing white paint in engravings, etc. One only finds these kind of things with a company that sells hand made goods. If you have a robotized production process it is different. Machines are consistent in their mistakes, you only need to pull one product in thousand from the line and tear it apart for QC. In a hand-made process you would need a QC inspector watching each worker to approach 100% QC, and even then there would need to be inspectors watching the inpectors, because human mistakes are random. Red faces at Wetzlar do occur from time to time Especially with the employees who sign the final chit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ricoh Posted June 19, 2016 Share #5 Posted June 19, 2016 Yeah, missed those threads being a newish member. I worked in a low volume specialised industry where mistakes could be life threatening. The operatives were responsible for the quality of their own work following a Japanese methodology (based on Kawasaki and total quality). Final test was automatic, each step of manufacture was signed off on a route card by the operative. Mistakes were few and far between for the reason that the customer had the right to return and reject a complete batch if a single failure could be shown to be an assembly problem. Random component failures are a different matter, but only the best were selected and design was conservative. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 19, 2016 Share #6 Posted June 19, 2016 True, but certainly in consumer electronics industry there is a cost factor as well, I'm sure. I think Leica puts its main effort in ensuring that things like lens centering etc. are within tolerance and that a certain percentage of returns for simple assembly errors must be accepted to keep the price just south of stratospheric. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ricoh Posted June 19, 2016 Share #7 Posted June 19, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Yes, we're discussing consumer electronics. You make a valid point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom B. Posted June 19, 2016 Share #8 Posted June 19, 2016 Yep, had this exact same problem with my M246 - after two months in Germany I'm hopimg to get it back next week or so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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