Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Since it's a heavy Voigtlander lens, it's some nice brass. Easily bendable when dropped, but this works to your advantage in repair. I dropped my 50 DR Sunnicron out in Iraq on a marble floor & bent the mounting flange good. ...an hour later after some work with a vise, channel locks, vise-grips and a file the lens was back to working fine. The glass was still perfect & that's what mattered. I'm not encouraging you to do a hack like I did. Leica repair is hard to come by in Iraq, so I had to. It's not too hard though with the proper tools and knowledge. You probably bent a bit of the flange on the rear of the lens and it's impeding the motion of the focusing helical. As long as your glass is intact, a repair should definitely be worth it. Especially so if you like this lens. Philip On Wednesday 04 April 2007 22:30:06 alvaro sendon wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I had what I like to call a "Bonk" moment last night. Where for no > reason at all my Voigtlander 28mm F1.9 slipped out of my hands and smacked > the floor. > > Nothing seemed apparently broken until I checked the focus ring and noticed > the extreme stiffness when rotating it. Does anyone know what is actually > broken? > > Just trying to decide if it is worth fixing considering the price of the > lens. Where can I send it to get fixed? Is it worth shipping it out to DAG > or Sherry Krauter? > > I am thinking that if it is $225 and under I will fix it, anything above > and I will have to consider it. Any opinions or suggestions will be > appreciated. > > Thank you; > > Alvaro Sendon > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information