Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/20

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Subject: [Leica] OT: 50 Summicron-R 2 Cam conversion for R8
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:38:04 -0700
References: <CAMGHw9B0e5piL=d4mWtVgT-AVQ5bR8GwPd9ixQS-mcu5swh++A@mail.gmail.com> <B0C40B1A-F4C4-464B-A62C-099D36E8645E@cox.net> <ED29DA8B-1A47-4B3E-A9C4-D1E54275F1A6@aotera.org>
 
AFAIK, Kindermann is the only Leica repair depot that repairs LTM cameras. 
Even Solms ships them to Kindermann.

John

On 2011-12-20, at 7:45 PM, Spencer Cheng wrote:

> At one point Kindermann was handling the repairs of all the older Leica's 
> for Leica NJ as they had all the parts. If that is still the case, having 
> Kindermann handle the conversion directly would be cheaper. Probably worth 
> getting a quote from them regardless.
> 
> I think I paid about $500-$600 about a decade ago to convert 3 lens to 
> 3-cam, have 2 broken SL evaluated and have all the lens TLC'ed.
In reply to: Message from digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird) ([Leica] OT: 50 Summicron-R 2 Cam conversion for R8)
Message from stasys1 at cox.net (Stasys Petravicius) ([Leica] OT: 50 Summicron-R 2 Cam conversion for R8)
Message from spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng) ([Leica] OT: 50 Summicron-R 2 Cam conversion for R8)