[Leica] I dropped my M!

[luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll)]

Hi John,

Sadly history, but as you say this has arrived to many of us, I've  
dropped in N.Y. with my M6 and MP, M6 has a little mark beside the  
winding and MP a very small signal on the plate, a day my Lux 75 has  
dropped, just the hood was a signal, also a similar experience with  
the 24 (no signal), I was so ungry as you, be sure. The positive is  
that Leica equipment is very resistant and on any case I had a problem  
using again them.

Fortunately I never had a problem with Leica strap, I like them, I  
have one from Luigi too (for my M3), and hope don't have any problem...

Besure you will soon forget this and be happy seeing that quality of  
your Leica camera and lens is always good.

Finally I've concluded, if I have some accidents is because I do a  
great use of it. Of course! If you drive a car diuring 10 years, did  
you never had a small or big signal on it to a small incident?.

Saludos desde Barcelona
Lluis


El 01/09/2009, a las 10:22, John Beeching escribi?:

> 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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