Re: [Leica] Canada Lisle-Kelco service

[John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>]

Your lens just needs a good cleaning. While I would recommend Gerry still,
and am surprised that L-K could not tackle it, I am sure that any competent
camera repair place could do the job. This is assuming it is an M lens and
not a 90/2.8 tele-elmarit-M. So if you are in a rush, check out the repair
resources at:

http://www.nemeng.com/leica/faq.shtml#007e

The other two sites I recommend for repair resources seem to be down but
here is their URLs:

http://www.lhsa.org

http://teachnet.edb.utexas.edu/~leica/

Any good Leica repair place tends to have a back log but the wait is worth
it.

John Collier

> From: "Marthe.Rene" <marthe.rene@sympatico.ca>
> 
> Hi John, it wasn't a pan on anyone. I just wanted to let people know that
> was not quite ready to do repairs on Leica yet.  I agree that Gerry at
> Kindermann is entitled to vacation like the rest of us. I felt a bit
> uncomfortable telling Lisle-Kelco  to return my lens so I could send it to
> Kindermann instead. I have used Lisle-Kelco for maintenance and repair on my
> Hasselblad equipment and have been very happy.
> 
> The lens has a lot of paint chips coming off the internal lens retainers.
> The paint flakes have deposited themselves on the lens elements. Where not
> talking a few specks here. All of the rings are shedding paint. It looks
> like an ant hill in there.  The lens had been riding at the bottom of a
> camera bag I had forgotten in the car (my fault). I guess the vibration got
> to it.  Its probably best that it goes back to Germany to ensure that the
> glass elements are OK.  I'm just concerned for the length of time this may
> take.
> 
> Thanks to Dan C for the tip on Reinhold Mueller in the Toronto area, I'll
> keep him in mind.
>