Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ridings" <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Cc: <leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Perennial PIA > > Lens covers are very important on a rangefinder. It doesn't take very long > > for the sun to burn a hole through the shutter! > > Has that every really happened, or is it an urban legend? > > Daniel Oh yes, Daniel. Last year I bought a lovely silver classic Wetzlar M6, very close to mint, for US $1,200. The owner had fried the shutter by leaving the lens uncovered in the sun. Hole-in-shutter make camera not work so good. Causing owner to send camera to Leica USA in Northvale where Ernst Hartmann and his genies installed new shutter, rebuilt shutter mechanism, adjusted meter, full camera CLA (cost US $465.) and I had a brand-new M6 whose shutter felt very much like those on my M4's. I mentioned this to Sherry Krauter (Golden Touch) who said that Solms has been delivering M6's relatively "dry", i.e. with a bit less lubricant than Wetzlar did with the M2-M3-M4, and thatg a proper CLA with older style lubrication will result in an M6 shutter that approaches the M4 in "feel." Don't know if this is true but do know that the shutter on this camera is exceptional. Seth LaK 9 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html