Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A year long wait for a Leica camera body to be brought back to superb working order is nothing. Nothing I tell you! ;-)))) I dreamed of having a Leica since the mid-70s and another year was just a drop in the bucket. Of course it helped that I already *had* the M3 back from her [another superb job], was not in a rush on the IIIf and had told her so. I have since heard that her LTM backlog has been significantly reduced in length, though I don't know what it currently stands at. Give her a call [she isn't real fond of e-mail and you get better response from her via the phone]; you won't be disappointed. Sherry Kräuter Golden Touch Quality Camera Repair 118 Purgatory Road Campbell Hall, New York 10916 (845) 496-8834 krauter@warwick.net /Mitch Zeissler - -----Original Message----- From: P2CON@aol.com [mailto:P2CON@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:53 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] IIIf love at first click Mitch wrote: << Sherry does CLAs on LTM bodies as a work of love; her bread and butter work is on the Ms. As such, her backlog when I had my IIIf RDDA done in '99 was significant and she had mine for most of a year before it was finally finished. It is in tip top condition now though, and I really enjoy using it. /Mitch Zeissler >> I would say that a year-long wait for a CLA is too long. I recently got up the nerve to send my IIIf to the fellow that does the black paint refurbish jobs on old LTM's, (Ye Youxin). We corresponded by e-mail a couple of times about the problem I was having, (slow shutter speeds were misadjusted so that the 1/4 setting gave 1/10, the 1/10 setting gave 1 sec. and so forth). This was the result of my letting a local leica repairman do a CLA on it and then giving it back to me in this condition, with the explanation that someone earlier had done something wrong to the camera and he could not fix it. I did not dare to insist on his making it right for fear he would make it worse. In any event, Ye Youxin said he thought it was probably just reassembled incorrectly and if I would send the camera to him he would fix it. I boxed it up and shipped it to him. The day it arrived, he checked it and e-mailed me that it would indeed be a simple thing to fix. He said that he would fix it and send it back to me, and after I checked to see that it was satisfactory I could then send him $50 plus the postage. I had the camera back in about three days and it works perfectly. Regards, Paul Connet