[Leica] In which the author confesses himself an ass

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

At least, when you knock a lens to a hard ground, you know what happened. I 
had a different experience where the damage was not evident. My M6 with 1.4 
75 'lux dropped off the middle console of my car, to my feets, when I was 
in a tight curve in the mountains. Felt like nothing. But then, focus and 
aperture ring were slipping through from time to time. I brought it to the 
repairman, and we both thought that would be nothing.

As posted in an earlier thread, the new summilux 75 is glued together, and 
the repairman couldn't open it even with 2x2 hrs of 60? degree heating (1h 
x 50? should be enough usually). Now it's at Solms since 3 months, and I'm 
still waiting for the cost estimate; not talking about the return of my 
lens... :-(
Didier

>I about died when I did that to my 50/2.5 Skopar (my least favorite 50).
>I cannot imagine what I would be feeling if I dropped a 50/1.4 asph. By
>the way, the damage to the Skopar was exactly the same...the focusing
>ring would not turn.