Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:09 AM 7/17/00 -0400, Rich Palmer wrote: >The shop with whom I have delt with for many years told me the many of the >internal parts could be had from Minolta for much less money than from >Leitz. Perhaps a repair >person with Minolta X sereies experience could be an alternative solution >to affordable R-3 >service. My camera of choice before Leica has always been the manual (small m) minoltas. I have several SRTs and both the XE7 and XE5. The local shop that I take my SRTs to for CLA, won't touch the XE7. I'm told the difference is comparable to that of working on an old "Slant 6" compared to today's "Northstar." In asking around the minolta community the minolta equivalent of Sherry and DAG seems to be: Vilmos Keresztes VK Camera Repair 87 Dora Avenue Waldwick, NJ 07463 (v) (f) 201 447 5257 I don't know if Vilmos is willing to look at your R3, but he is one of the only repair folks who works on the XE, and probably well worth the call. Carpe Lumen, Michael E. Berube