Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:04 PM 8/26/2006, you wrote: Yeah Ted, but did you ever do an Eskimo roll in a kayak while holding >your Leica? > >Larry Z You guys continue to talk around me. It's fine. I've done more than an Eskimo roll with the M6's. I've waded waist deep through mud after Hurricane Mitch in Honduras and lost the M6 in the mud after it fell of off my shoulder when I stepped into an even deeper gully. We fished the camera out of the mud. I carefully rewound the film and later washed the camera in clean water and dried it by a fire. I continued to use it for the two weeks I was in Honduras with no problems. It was later cleaned and lubricated by Leica at no charge. I also dropped an M6 off the side of a canoe in the Mosquito Coast when the load on the canoe suddenly shifted. The boatman snagged the strap with his pole and I again managed to dry the camera out and continue using it for another 2 weeks before sending it to Leica, again for CLA at no charge. I've also done more mundane and stupid things like take the M7 on a white-water rafting trip. It didn't fall overboard but did get thoroughly soaked and survived. The M's might not be weather-sealed but they are so well built and so devoid of electronics that they don't need to be weather sealed. Leically, Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com