Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had my PME-3 Hasselblad prism fall from the top shelf of a cupboard (about 6 feet high) onto a hard wood floor. Not a mark or any evidence of damage to the PME-3, but there is a dent in the floor! dan c. At 06:18 PM 05-02-01 -0500, Marc James Small wrote: >At 01:26 PM 2/5/2001 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>The camera works perfectly now like it always has. It's a cube with a >mirror in it. >>A more elegant design never existed. I say Phooey to the prisms and the >big lenses. >>But would kill for a 100 or 120 macro. > >The 5.6/120 S-Planar was the first lens I bought when I got my 2000 FCM. I >have had that set topple off a tripod. No damage at all but, thankfully, >it landed on grass. Years ago, I did drop my first M3 off a table at a >swimming pool, and it landed on concrete. Just put another ding in the >chrome. (And it is a good thing this is the Leica USERS' Group, as this >was a relatively sought-after collectible, one of those "first ten >thousand". I later sold the camera for ten times what I had paid for it.)