[Leica] Any other 280mm f/4 APO users?

[Tina Manley]

Doug -

You need to make friends with the person who handles your lens when you
send it in for servicing.  Send them some photos to show what you are doing
with that lens!  Mine take a maximum of 6 weeks and, if I'm leaving on a
trip, I've had them turn a CLA lens around in less than a week.  You can
also request a loaner if the lens is going to be out of commission for
longer than a week or two.

Be assertive.  They are there to serve you.  Anybody who gives Leica the
positive publicity that you do deserves the best of service and that's not
what you are getting!

Good luck,

Tina

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
wrote:
>
> My 3-cam 280mm f/4 APO requires a CLA every two years (sticky diaphragm,
> every two years) and the turnaround is months.  It's scheduled to return
> from the latest CLA next week tuesday, six months after I sent it to Leica
> USA for service (I called last week and was told OMG that's too long, I'll
> bump it to the front of the line and thanks for not yelling).
>
> Six months every two years is 25% down time!  If not for the spectacular
> image quality this lens produces I'd have dumped it years ago.  This year I
> was prepared, I had sold almost every other lens to pay for a second 280mm
> f/4 APO so I could continue making photos without sacrificing image quality.
>
> My question to other 280/4 users: Is a sticky diaphragm every two years
> typical?  The optimist in me wants to believe that whatever makes my lens
> get sticky so regularly will be fixed this time OTOH I'm not selling the
> ROM 280 any time soon.
>
> Grrrrr.
>
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> http://doug-herr.fineartamerica.com
>
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