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Subject: [Leica] I dropped my M!
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:35:00 -0700
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Oh, did you also trip over it?
S.d.


On Sep 1, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Jerry Lehrer wrote:

> John,
>
> Ya gotta realize that sometimes tools do drop and fall onto hard  
> stuff.  I remember once I slipped and
> dropped a SNAP-ON  1/2 inch drive, ratchet wrench on my paved stone  
> driveway!  Oh the agony ;-)
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
>
> Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>> John, every Leica owner on the list feels your pain (or should).  
>> At least
>> you now have an honorable scar but not a repair bill.
>> There is no sadder sound than the thunk of Leica meeting stone!
>>
>> 2009/9/1 John Beeching <johnbeeching at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I suppose it has to happen some time, but it is painful when it  
>>> does.  I've
>>> had my M6 for ten years now, put thousands of films through it,  
>>> taken it
>>> all
>>> over the world - up tributaries on the Amazon in dugout canoes,  
>>> across
>>> India, up Kilmanjaro, etc. - but have never dropped it.  This  
>>> summer I was
>>> walking around a French chateau when the split ring on the strap  
>>> worked
>>> itself off and the camera dropped off my shoulder onto the stone  
>>> floor.  Of
>>> course it had on a heavier lens than my usual 35mm Summicron, the  
>>> 90mm
>>> Elmarit.  It was more painful than when I cut off half my big toe  
>>> with a
>>> lawnmover.  I staggered to a cafe and ordered a double espresso  
>>> and a large
>>> brandy to calm myself down before checking the camera out.   The  
>>> damage: a
>>> dent on the camera body just below the winder and a bent lens  
>>> hood.  It
>>> still seemed to be able to focus as before and the shutter fired  
>>> OK.  I put
>>> plenty more film through it since the drop and have got used to  
>>> its war
>>> wounds, though they do ache when the weather is damp.  I am now  
>>> steadily
>>> developing all the film.  The negatives look as good as ever,  
>>> though I have
>>> yet to scan them, but I envisage no problem.
>>>
>>> The cause of the disaster.  I do not like plastic and so I had  
>>> replaced the
>>> strap that came with the camera with a leather (for Leica) one  
>>> from Luigi (
>>> http://www.leicatime.com/).  The split ring had worked off the  
>>> camera once
>>> before, though I noticed it in time.  I should have taken that for a
>>> warning
>>> and gone back to the plastic Leica strap.  However, I did try to
>>> cannibalise
>>> the rings of the genuine Leica strap on to the leather one but  
>>> without
>>> success.  Needless to say I now have the genuine plastic strap on  
>>> my M6.
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Beeching
>>> http://johnbeeching.com/
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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