Leicauser7 Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share #21 Â Posted March 15, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thanks -- would you possibly mind asking? I asssume this was no-cost work performed within warranty? I ask bc receiving that type of result within that timeframe doesn't sound like what I would expect from NJ (for sure) and possiblly not Germany either (seems like a fast turn around for them particularly from the US) but rather what someone like Don Goldstein (wonderful guy) would deliver. Many thanks, tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cliff S Posted March 15, 2017 Share #22 Â Posted March 15, 2017 It def went to Leica because I got a cardboard thing from Leica showing they worked on it. Â My dealer is in montreal. I only buy from him. M, SL, Q and lots of lenses. If there's a charge, I'm not told and not asked to pay. Â When you are loyal to a store, usually you get the service and respect back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicauser7 Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share #23 Â Posted March 15, 2017 Understood. Well, if possible, it would be quite interesting to learn if they used Leica US or Germany to get such a positive result. If not, no worries. Thank You. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff S Posted March 15, 2017 Share #24 Â Posted March 15, 2017 I was told Germany but he may have been showing off Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicauser7 Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share #25 Â Posted March 15, 2017 That would make more sense than NJ ... Â Â Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fildor Posted March 24, 2017 Share #26 Â Posted March 24, 2017 Reading the forums as a new customer for an Apo 50 and a summilux 28, it leaves me with some bewilderment from Leica QC and NOS. . If I'm going to buy a 2015 lens delivered as NEW, I'd rather by used and save the money. New is new. What are your thoughts. I'm as PO and the guy returning the sux 28 because I wouldn't stand for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted March 24, 2017 Share #27 Â Posted March 24, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) If I'm going to buy a 2015 lens delivered as NEW, I'd rather by used and save the money. Provided the lens hasn't been anywhere other than the factory or within the distribution chain, I'm not sure what the problem might be? Leica often make products in batches and these are likely to be kept in stock and packaged up as and when required. The old Noctilux is a good example. The old Midland factory reputedly stopped making them many years before Leica discontinued the lens from the catalogue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicauser7 Posted March 24, 2017 Author Share #28  Posted March 24, 2017 From my personal experience, I believe that the customer should assume that any fast wide angle or telephoto lens -- i.e., just about anything that is either other than 50mm or 2.0 or faster -- will come from the factory less than perfectly calibrated, and that getting each such lens perfectly calibrated is simply part of the "joy" of M ownership.  Alternatives are to 1) accept and deal with that as a part of the process, 2) reject it and live with less than perfectly calibrated lenses or 3) reject it and buy an SL or something else.  I believe that a good proportion of individuals that try M land in all 3 groups, though there are a surprising number of unwitting participants in group 2), which is the worst place to be -- in my opinion.  That is, there are a few folks in 2) that consciously make the trade off, but many more who believe that their system is optimized when it is not.  A perfectly calibrated fast lens working in harmony with a perfectly calibrated body is a beautiful thing and it is more rare than many users would believe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surge Posted March 26, 2017 Share #29 Â Posted March 26, 2017 Anyhow, the important part is the 5 years warranty starting at the date of purchase. Anything else is Leica internal business. There's nothing for us to decode, really. Warranty is 2 years. Not 5. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeicaFan1 Posted April 12, 2017 Share #30 Â Posted April 12, 2017 I received my 28 Lux today, 470XXXX. 3/15/2017 on outer, inner box, and test certificate. Lens has not been tested yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicauser7 Posted April 12, 2017 Author Share #31 Â Posted April 12, 2017 I should update this thread -- Leica swapped my lens for a new one -- serial number also 470xxxx... my new lens was very slightly back focusing, tolerably so at 1.4 but with slight focus shift it was a bit soft at 2.0. So I sent it in to NJ for recalibration --- should have it back by early next week at the latest... as I've said elsewhere, when I acquire a 1.4 Leica lens I assume that it will require recalibration... but I am extremely finicky about ensuring near-perfect calibration... Â Â Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
semi-ambivalent Posted April 13, 2017 Share #32 Â Posted April 13, 2017 I should update this thread -- Leica swapped my lens for a new one -- serial number also 470xxxx... my new lens was very slightly back focusing, tolerably so at 1.4 but with slight focus shift it was a bit soft at 2.0. So I sent it in to NJ for recalibration --- should have it back by early next week at the latest... as I've said elsewhere, when I acquire a 1.4 Leica lens I assume that it will require recalibration... but I am extremely finicky about ensuring near-perfect calibration... Â Â Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Reminds me of the old AMF Harley-Davidson days where, when you took delivery of your new Sportster the first thing you did was bring it to your mechanic who replaced all the poorly installed leaky gaskets. I had a 21mm SEM with the loose front cell. Leica NJ handled it quickly and without cost (I ate the substantial UPS insurance fee) and the lens is wonderful but, jeez. One wonders how many of such focus problems as yours would just disappear if sensor surface had physical thickness. A computer motherboard can have ten layers, in years hence the wonks might be able to stack offset layers of pixels... Â New solutions always bring new problems, s-a Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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