Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Exactly the same thing happened to the Zeiss 50mm f1.4 that I purchased for my Contax RTS. Yashica only charged me $150 to put my $250 lens back together. > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:50:57 -0400 > Subject: [Leica] Horror Tale > > My one-month-old, Titanium 35 1.4. ASPH, has fallen apart! That's right, > fallen apart. The aperture ring is totally disengaged from the click stop > mechanism, and floats up and down - although it still controls the blades > properly. At the same time, the "guts" of the lens seem to have slipped > downwards so that too much protrudes from the rear. - -- Erich Champion : mailto:echampio@adobe.com : 408.536.6497 Voice User Education : Adobe Systems Incorporated : 408.537.4040 Fax - --