Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >> - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html