Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] STOP WORRYING ABOUT YOUR LEICAS
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 15:17:43 -0500

> Ted Grant wrote:
>> 
>> From: Tristan Tom
>> >>>>How big of a jolt does it take to knock the Leica rangefinder out of
>> > alignment? Dop they just go out with time and normal usage?  I'm just
>> > curious how careful I need to be with it. I've already knocked it
>> > around a bit,<<<<<<
>>
>> Tristan,
>> Don't sweat it! This camera can handle a good amount of abuse. Heck you've
>> admitted  you've banged it a few times and nothing happens.
>>
>> I've been banging mine around the world since 1985 and the rangefinders are
>> still fine.
> Hell, my M6 bounced around inside my RAV4 when I rolled it - at least
> twice, my son claims three times or more - at 65 miles an hour. The car
> was totalled, I was smashed up, my 35 ASPH had what seemed to be batter
> acid on the front element - and there was NOTHING wrong with the
> rangefinder....
>
>
>
>> The only thing knocked out of alignment I've experienced with a Leica, are a
>> couple of front teeth when I jumped over a fence on assignment and when I
>> landed one of the Leicas' came up and smacked me in the mouth! One might
>> say, "Completely throwing them out of alignment!" ;-) True guys!
>>
>> And it hurt and I bled like a stuck pig!  And I still had to keep shooting,
>> as this was a one time only situation!         Aaaaaaah life is hell in the
>> trenches! ;-)
>> ted
>>
>> Ted Grant Photography Limited
>> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
>
That is all very nice guys!! I had an M2 slip off a coffee table and fall
about 14" to a carpeted floor and knock the rangefinder out of alignment.

Steve
Annapolis

Replies: Reply from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> (Re: [Leica] STOP WORRYING ABOUT YOUR LEICAS)