[Leica] Lens accidents

[Gary Elshaw <gary.elshaw@vuw.ac.nz>]

Hi All,

Jay wrote:

"I had the entire front assembly of a 3rd-generation (E49) 28 Elmarit-M
(a borrowed one at that!) unscrew and dump the diaphragm blades all over the
floor."

Bitter irony Jay! Last night whilst attempting to remove the front element
of my Summar, I accidentally, like i'd do it on purpose (?), nudged the
rest of the lens, spilling the aperture leaves across my desk. After a
frustrating hour and a half of trying to sort the leaf positioning
correctly I gave up in abject shame. The really disheartening part came
when i realised i didn't have the right tools for the job to get the front
element apart for the cleaning, which is going to have to be done by a tech
somewhere anyway. I also had a discouraging episode with my 35 Summaron,
but we won't get into that. It's better now, but suffice to say Leica will
hopefully have the good sense to never offer me a job in their tech
department.

Yours, in unmanly technical undexterity,
Gary



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