Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1994/02/21

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To: Blair Nonnecke <nonnecke@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Re: used M's
From: Gordon Banks <geb@dsl.pitt.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 16:23:07 -0500 (EST)
Cc: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us

On Mon, 21 Feb 1994, Blair Nonnecke wrote:

> 
> A few years ago, one of the photography magazines interviewed a noted
> professional photographer who traded in his entire set of equipment each
> year. The photographer claimed that high frequency vibration from airplanes
> loosens screws in the cameras causing them to malfunction. This type of
> hidden "damage" would be very difficult to assertain when purchasing a used
> camera.
> 

So stay away from those "Luftwaffe" model Leicas, eh?  

I am skeptical of this guy's claim.
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