Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My M6 acted up the other night; during a Candidate's Night, I got a roll of relatively mis-exposed shots with the only good ones the ones I had guesstimated when I began to distrust the meter readings. So, I gave my M6 a workout and recalled that infinity focus was off a tad as well. So, down the street to the Repair Dude ("Tom In The Attic", they call him at the store) went the M6 for a tweaking. I suspect the meter problem is a weak battery and the RF adjustment should be a snap. Understand, pray, that this is a 1986, very late Wetzlar, M6. It was in the shop, in New Jersey, in 1994, for a CLA (when Leica upgraded the meter without telling the then-owner), immediately before I purchased it. This camera has been in the hands of the repair folks TWICE in its fifteen years of life. (And, buckaroos, I am NOT an easy owner of cameras. They get no reverence from this lad -- this guy has been my main camera for seven years without the slightest groan of protest despite my tendency to toss it into the back seat of my car, to use it in rain and ice, to pound nails if no hammer is at hand, und so weiter. I do not intentionally abuse the darling but neither do I baby the lass.) So much for tales of gloom and doom and despair about Leica quality. This is the photographic equivalent of the brick shit-house. The Evil Wolf could never blow this sucker away! (I have a Rolleiflex Automat which is on its second visit in three years to Harry Fleenor though, admittedly, I have given treatment on par with the treatment my M6 has endured to my 2.8F and 2.8GX and, again, these puppies haven't groaned a single whimper or whinged a whinge for the duration of their time in Purgatory.) For the period while my M6 will be visiting Tom In The Attic, I pulled out my M3 DS and swapped the Tom Abrahamson Soft Release onto the older camera and switched the wide Leica strap. System compatibility is a wonderful thing, so the only problem I had was going through a stack of old PX625's to find a good one for the MR meter. (I was surprised to discover that only half of the stack were dead.) I was back and running in ten minutes and had the camera delivered for inspection and attention to Tom in fifteen more minutes. The only delay was in convincing the manager of the store that my new wife hadn't run off yet. ("Are you still married?" "Well, she DID kiss me good-bye this morning." "She might have meant that as a REAL 'good-bye kiss'." "She left her dog." "Hot damn! She'll be back!") I do love Leica M's! Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html