Re: [Leica] My M3's finder died.

["Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@istar.ca>]

Ken:

Try Leica's Canadian distributor, Kindermann.  They service all Leicas
right down to the screw mounts.  They offer very good service and may fix
it right away.

Regards,

Robert

At 12:33 AM 8/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm now on the day 3 of my three week trip around North America,
>visiting Toronto, Ottawa, New York and San Francisco.
>
>This morning, I was just taking my M3 out of the bag to bring to a
>Sunday brunch with my family, I realised that the worst has happened:
>the glued prism in the viewfinder spontaneously separated, from no
>impact, rendering it useless.
>
>Being in Toronto, I will be bringing it to Reinhold Mueller tomorrow,
>but he said it is unlikely that it is repairable.
>
>Luckily, the camera is under warrenty from an independent technician in
>Tokyo.  I will bring it back to him who can hopefully transplant the
>prism from another M3, or replace it with a remanufacturered replica. 
>In the meanwhile, I'm left with a back up N brand camera.
>
>Reinhold Mueller said he has a clean, user M3, so I might end up getting
>it, though I may prefer a different body, either an M4 or M5.
>
>:twas a sad day.
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