M4-P Light Leak

[reiniger]

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Happy end: the dealer took the camera back and refunded the money. Tried my luck with another M4-P in even better cosmetics which then had very sloppy shutter times so off, that 1/8s was running as fast a 1/125s... Returned to the dealer as well without any discussion this time... Maybe i have a bad karma for M4-P´s...

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[a.noctilux]

29 minutes ago, reiniger said:

Maybe i have a bad karma for M4-P´s

Try other M, don't give-up,

M4/M2/M6/MP or M-A (not new when we read some threads here or other places).

[Huss]

12 hours ago, reiniger said:

Happy end: the dealer took the camera back and refunded the money. Tried my luck with another M4-P in even better cosmetics which then had very sloppy shutter times so off, that 1/8s was running as fast a 1/125s... Returned to the dealer as well without any discussion this time... Maybe i have a bad karma for M4-P´s...

Sounds like that dealer is selling junky cameras.  I'd avoid that place.

[hansvons]

I would only buy a camera that had a recent CLA done by a well-known technician. If you are located in Europe, I can recommend Alexander Görlitz/Foto Görlitz. Not cheap but  realistic and reliable. I bought from him an M4-P, which does what it should do because it received a recent CLA. 
 

And to be clear, the M4-P is as good as any other M. No need to deviate from your original idea. 

[reiniger]

@hansvons Sure, both time was official Leica store, one time Hamburg one time Berlin, alleged cla‘d by Wiese Fototechnik

[hansvons]

44 minutes ago, reiniger said:

Sure, both time was official Leica store, one time Hamburg one time Berlin, alleged cla‘d by Wiese Fototechnik

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