Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] focus tabs/another newbie...
From: John Collier <jbcollier@powersurfr.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 12:24:40 -0700

Hi Robert,

I agree one hundred per cent. He always gives great advice and you get to
pay in Canadian $ too. I am not kidding about the "voice of doom" stuff
though. The first time it happened I was sure he was about to tell me I
needed a new shutter or something equally expensive. All he wanted to say
was that a gouge (too big to be a scratch) out of the back was NOT
repairable and they no longer had new M2 backs on hand. I had not even
mentioned the gouge.

He is getting better, especially, after I sent him a SL2 I bought that was
in user condition before it was dropped in a creek :-). How do you spell
cheap. He CLAed and degunged it and now it works beautifully, looks tough
mind you...

John Collier

> From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
> 
> Gerry has done the CLA's on all my cameras including and M6.  Kindermann
> has a fair price and very quick service.
> 
> Gerry seems far from a collector.  A few times I have sent him lenses or
> cameras and he has told me it is really not worth spending the time and
> money on such an old lens or camera.  He is right most of the time.  I sent
> him an old fixed mount 50mm Summicron that had coating marks and was
> slightly fogged.  he told me not to waste my money cleaning it and to just
> find a better lens.  I have since sold that lens to a local collector who
> is willing to go to the effort of getting it cleaned.  For about what I
> sold the lens for and what I would have paid for a cleaning, I have bought
> a like new latest version chrome 50mm Summicron on Ebay.  Most of my PAW
> has been shot with this new lens.
>
> 
>> At 09:16 AM 2/7/2002 -0700, John Collier wrote:
>>
>> Every time I send my cameras into Gerry at Kindermann, he always phones with
>> the estimate and then informs me, in a voice heavily foreshadowing doom,
>> that there is nothing he can do about the terrible cosmetic condition of my
>> camera. There is absolutely no way it would even occur to him that you might
>> just scratch up the focusing ring and glue it on. The only way he would do
>> it is to disassemble the lens and drill the appropriate holes. Big bucks to
>> do! He is one of the best Leica techs on the planet and he does not bodge
>> things up; a source of great comfort to me and why I send all my work to
>> him. So this is where the you in Leica-Users comes in. You do the bodging
>> and let Gerry do the soft weeping.
>>

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