Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Someone I know with fairly close ties to Leica had a 3E that simply fell apart after about 6 months. The story goes that Leica decided that it was not repairable, and that it would be replaced. Only problem was that production is only done in batches, and he would have to wait until it was restarted (about a month), because the two staff who knew how to make a 3E were on holiday. When production was restarted, he had the first example made. Serial number was 49 higher than the lens it replaced, which had been made over half a year earlier. All of which shows the rarity of the lens, and even more so of the skill and knowledge required to fix it. The chances of anyone in any export market, even the US, having the ability to repair such a lens are on the anorexic side of slim. Nick __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html