Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've been hearing a whole lot about equipment problems lately. lenses falling apart as the user tries to unbayonet them, loose aperture rings, jamming shuitters on new cameras, lens helicoids freezing in the cold.slapping mirrors, loose retaining rings; If I didn't know better I'de swear Leicas are junk! Either you guys aren't getting your gadgets CLAd properly or you're doing weird things with them, or maybe they are junk. See Ya Javier Emanuel Lowi wrote: > Another bit of Canadian wilderness experience. One extinguishes a campfire by peeing > on it only once in one's life. No matter how much beer you've consumed or how many > pretty girls are around. A foul idea. > > Emanuel Lowi > Montreal > > P.S. My old M3 shutter works MUCH better at -40 than any new M6 I've tried. They've > changed the curtain material. But truly the lens focus mechanism freezes up pretty > early in the game, making wide angles the cold weather lenses of choice. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com