Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is amazing what some people will do to their thousand dollar leica lenses! ;-) Dan C. At 02:35 PM 27-09-98 +1200, you wrote: >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 > > > >_________________________________________________________ >"He's dead Jim... > ...I'll get his tricorder, you get his wallet." > > > OO > [_]<| > /|\ >Gary Elshaw >Post-Grad Film Student >Victoria University >Wellington >New Zealand >http://members.tripod.com/~elshaw/index.html >__________________________________________________________ > >