Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have had my TTL back in twice to L-K (passport) for adjustment for user inflicted reasons. Their service has been quick and good but the vertical alignment was much better the second time around. My recently purchased M4-2 was CLAed last year by L-K and I must confess to being less than impressed. I have sent it to Gerry for minor adjustments and a check of L-K's work. John Collier > From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com> > > Lisle Kelco has done some work on my R8's and seem to have excellent and > timely service. I don't know how they would do on the older M and screw > mounts, but they seem to have their act together servicing the recent > stuff. I haven't paid for any service there yet, so I don't know how > expensive they are. > > My new M6 TTL is in at Lisle Kelco now to see if they can do anything about > the battery consumption. In may just be me, not the camera. I mailed it > to them Friday along with an R8 that needed cleaning. It will be > interesting to see how quick they turn it around. > > > At 12:24 PM 2/7/2002 -0700, John Collier wrote: >> >> 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... >> >>> 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