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thornless_Rosa Posted May 17, 2022 Author Share #2 Posted May 17, 2022 Scheisse, Leica! 3 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicci78 Posted May 17, 2022 Share #3 Posted May 17, 2022 (edited) Only 6 years of support in 2028, you won’t be able to repair your CL or TL bodies and lenses. What a bummer. Edited May 17, 2022 by nicci78 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jaapv Posted May 17, 2022 Popular Post Share #4 Posted May 17, 2022 22 hours ago, nicci78 said: Only 6 years of support [...] What a bummer. If this is true... The OP is unconfirmed. Indeed and a radical departure from Leica's standard 10 years + ! That will not do the reputation of the company any good. It was part of the premium we paid for Leica. 😡😡. They should fire the person(s) who thought this up and start behaving like the brand they used to be. No new Leicas for me.😡 I can accept the reasoning behind the discontinuation, but cutting down on support is beyond the pale. I cannot imagine anybody buying one of the remaining CLs/TL2s with this in the background. Who is going to buy a camera at this price that may turn into a brick within six years? One may hope that this will not become the new "Leica standard" for all models. The competition will be popping bottles of champagne.🍾🍾 14 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M11 for me Posted May 17, 2022 Share #5 Posted May 17, 2022 In practice there will be parts available for much longer time I presume. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hiles Posted May 17, 2022 Share #6 Posted May 17, 2022 Seems to me that the issue will be the availability of electronic parts (which Leica do not make). At some point they will run out of replacement sensors (or whatever). This will not be unique to Leica. Some small car brands will have the same problem. For a company the size of Leica, seems to me that the best they can do is get a statistician to provide a best estimate of future needs, and pre-order accordingly. Must be roughly the same with other manufacturers. With film cameras Leica can make a stock of parts – not so with electronics. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted May 17, 2022 Share #7 Posted May 17, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) 20 minutes ago, M11 for me said: In practice there will be parts available for much longer time I presume. They clearly say "support for six years" To me that means that cameras will be returned unrepaired after that date. Otherwise they should have said "a minimum of" The period is a matter of stock planning, which, as we have seen, may go wrong. But that is another matter (circumstances beyond our control,etc.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frame-it Posted May 17, 2022 Share #8 Posted May 17, 2022 finally some official news for the CL owners. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louis Posted May 17, 2022 Share #9 Posted May 17, 2022 I purchased my CL when it came on the market; therefore, I will not have any support anymore!!!!...... Leica decided to dive low!... 2 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicci78 Posted May 17, 2022 Share #10 Posted May 17, 2022 only 6 years of support from the date of purchase !! Which is unacceptable 4 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted May 17, 2022 Share #11 Posted May 17, 2022 I guess that the used market for Leica APS-C has crashed right now... 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicci78 Posted May 17, 2022 Share #12 Posted May 17, 2022 (edited) the real problem is about the first T lenses from 2014 !! they are already out of the 6 years range. What's the problem ? the part inventory is already so low that Leica cannot commit to longer support ? crazy disappointing. Ending APS-C line up is worst than I can imagine. Edited May 17, 2022 by nicci78 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted May 17, 2022 Share #13 Posted May 17, 2022 The bean counters have taken over I suppose... 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicci78 Posted May 17, 2022 Share #14 Posted May 17, 2022 (edited) even worst, this is not a letter to the customers. It is intended to their employees around the world, about how to react... to distributors, customers or the media. Leica did not even have the dignity to make an official statement. They prefer to keep everybody in the dark Edited May 17, 2022 by nicci78 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Dahl Posted May 17, 2022 Share #15 Posted May 17, 2022 Then it's goodbye Leica. Never again new leica L mount for me. I will do what I can to warn new buyers against buying new L Mount. I bet the same thing will happen in a few years with FF Leica L. Then L Mount is sigma and Panasonic .. Guaranteed for 6 years. From the date of acquisition. For me 2017 so I can get repaired for one more year spring 2023 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬. That is totally unacceptable. Why is it not for all 6 years ahead ??? 😡🤬🤬🤬. If Leica does not live the punishment of its customers, I do not understand. They do not even apologize for their handling of the case 😡😡 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicci78 Posted May 17, 2022 Share #16 Posted May 17, 2022 14 minutes ago, jaapv said: I guess that the used market for Leica APS-C has crashed right now... Hopefully I already sold all my L-mount stuff two months ago at a good price. I will never buy into L-mount ever again. It is a doomed mount, that already lost one leg. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotium Posted May 17, 2022 Share #17 Posted May 17, 2022 I think I’ll be looking to other manufacturers for all of my future photography needs 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrique Santa Posted May 17, 2022 Share #18 Posted May 17, 2022 55 minutes ago, jaapv said: I guess that the used market for Leica APS-C has crashed right now... So , at last you understand.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M11 for me Posted May 17, 2022 Share #19 Posted May 17, 2022 (edited) vor 41 Minuten schrieb gotium: I think I’ll be looking to other manufacturers for all of my future photography needs You certainly have an eye on the next Leica product 😍 Edited May 17, 2022 by M11 for me 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted May 17, 2022 Share #20 Posted May 17, 2022 My Olympus E-1 was first sold in 2003. I bought it used in 2007. I had it serviced, once, in about 2015 ... about two months before Olympus discontinued servicing the model because they had announced the end date for the service and suggested that if you were still using it, it would be good to let them check it out, renew the weather sealing, etc, one last time. Seven years later, it continues to work flawlessly, needs nothing, and I suspect it will keep going as long as I keep putting fresh batteries into it. I have Olympus HG lenses for the E-1 (and E-M1) cameras. They'll both work with both Olympus and Panasonic mFT bodies. I bought my Leica CL body in 2018. It has operated flawlessly for tens of thousands of exposures since, just like the E-1. I suspect it too will keep going until I no longer put fresh batteries into it. When it stops working, I'll just move to another camera. I have only Leica M-mount and R-mount lenses that I use with the CL ... and they'll be useful long after the CL body is pushing up daisies. So ... Okay, the CL is out of production. It's not a big deal to me, it's the course of things in this era of photographic equipment. I'll likely be using mostly Leica M cameras anyway, again, in another year: I'm loving what I get out of the M10 Monchrom, and will likely pick up an M10-R as well for a color camera. G 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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