Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This sad tale also makes it clear why Leica warns users to keep their hands out of the inside of lenses. Even if it proves possible to clean and reassembly the lens, it is likely that dust or other forms of dirt will be trapped inside. The photographer's role is to take pictures, not wreck the means to take them. All quite sad. In sympathy, Joe Stephenson - -----Original Message----- From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Saturday, September 26, 1998 8:09 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Lens accidents >It is amazing what some people will do to their thousand dollar leica lenses! > >;-) > >Dan C. > >At 02:35 PM 27-09-98 +1200, you wrote: >>Hi All, >> >>Jay wrote: >> >>"I had the entire front assembly of a 3rd-generation (E49) 28 Elmarit-M >>(a borrowed one at that!) unscrew and dump the diaphragm blades all over the >>floor." >> >>Bitter irony Jay! Last night whilst attempting to remove the front element >>of my Summar, I accidentally, like i'd do it on purpose (?), nudged the >>rest of the lens, spilling the aperture leaves across my desk. After a >>frustrating hour and a half of trying to sort the leaf positioning >>correctly I gave up in abject shame. The really disheartening part came >>when i realised i didn't have the right tools for the job to get the front >>element apart for the cleaning, which is going to have to be done by a tech >>somewhere anyway. I also had a discouraging episode with my 35 Summaron, >>but we won't get into that. It's better now, but suffice to say Leica will >>hopefully have the good sense to never offer me a job in their tech >>department. >> >>Yours, in unmanly technical undexterity, >>Gary >> >> >> >>_________________________________________________________ >>"He's dead Jim... >> ...I'll get his tricorder, you get his wallet." >> >> >> OO >> [_]<| >> /|\ >>Gary Elshaw >>Post-Grad Film Student >>Victoria University >>Wellington >>New Zealand >>http://members.tripod.com/~elshaw/index.html >>__________________________________________________________ >> >>