In the past two years my Leaf backs made it to Leaf America four times for warranty repairs. One of the times it was a complete EBox replacement, 2 times firewire port replacement and once adjustment. Currently I am sitting on two AFI backs on warranty. If there is service for them I will be OK but if the service is gone I will be screwed. I am shooting a big volume of images, quite often a 100k a year and always rely on service to be available. I know that this beasts go forever. My H20 went for 450K actuation, record followed by 300k of my 6MP LPhase and so on.
I know it is just a rumor, but people say that it is a rumor that I lost money on real-estate market. Should I believe it or question it as well?
Andre
Andre,
At some level I don't understand.
I like the people at Leaf and when their back works it works well, loved the interface and even though the lcd isn't that detailed the wb and controls and about 20,000 miles ahead of the phase backs I replaced it with.
Regardless of liking the people, I have work to do and by the time I went through three rounds of major repairs on the Leaf and suffered through LC10, I just gave up, took a $14,000 loss and sold it, spent close to another 20k and went with Phase.
Do I think the Phase shoots a superior file, absolutely not, but it's close enough and it is bulletproof, though clunky, out of date in it's design and functions.
Also at the time the software of the Phase was very stable and didn't require a new fresh install every two weeks.
I guess my point is if you are shooting 100,000 images a year why mess with it, regarldess of what happens to Leaf?
There has to be a better alternative than 4 repairs in a shot period of time.
Maybe it is time to look at a D3x.
B