Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leicas have a reputation for being readily 'field serviceable'. I have read of war photogs carrying their Leicas around in plastic bags - the parts that is - until they have time to put them back together. In fact that was one of the early appeals of the Leica, beyond the diminutive size: a user could readily disassemble, clean, and reassemble the camera in a trench or foxhole even. Not the rangefinder I think, but the lenses and transport portions, certainly. I have never tried, nor needed, to repair a Leica body, but I have managed to lube up and do minor repairs on other, similarly simple, cameras. Anyway, it is fun and interesting, as Austin pointed out. - - marc p.s. what is a 'tyro'? On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 09:00 PM, Austin Franklin wrote: > >> Where do these Leica tyros get these "do it yourself" ideas? >> >> Jerry > > Jerry, > > If someone wants to try to repair something they own, then that is > their > decision. The worst they will do is ruin the item, and hopefully learn > something. The best they will do is fix the item, and hopefully learn > something. And any degree of repair in-between, but the point is, they > learn something. Why denigrate someone for wanting to learn something? > > Every person who has any experience repairing things learned somehow, > and > the learning process involves making mistakes. How do you know this > guy is > a Leica tyro, he may have been using Leicas for years. > > Some mistakes are costlier than others, no doubt, and typically, it's > a good > idea to learn on a junker. Some people enjoy fixing things > themselves, and > if they can do it successfully, good for them. If they make a > mistake, and > they have to pay someone else to fix their mistake, that's their > choice...and again, they learn something from it, and it might deter > them > from embarking on such a venture in the future. > > Regards, > > Austin > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html