Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina Manley wrote: > > I feel your pain! That's every Leica-owner's nightmare. You can > carry it to war zones and drop it in rivers but don't drop it two feet > to the floor!! > Hope you get it back soon. > > Tina Tina...I know. Last time I seriously dropped a camera was way back in 1991 or so. I was covering some kind of kids track event at Emory University in Atlanta (well Decatur I think it is) and I tripped over this little rail and fell face first on the track. My F3T/MD4, 300 2.8 and 2x TC hit the asphalt HARD. Lens elements were rolling around on the ground. I was seriously pissed. All in all hat was a lucky break as the NPS repair tech at that time was a very good friend, he took the stuff home worked on it in his off time and charged me beer plus parts. 80 bucks for parts. He said Nikon would have written off my F3 and MD4 as BER but he was able to fix them, and actually they worked better than before the drop. This thing today, the camera slipped off my shoulder as I was reaching to lock the front door, it hit the porch column, then the brick wall, then the concrete porch. I tried to break the fall with my foot, but all I succeeded in doing was kicking the damn thing. -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://www.mcclary.net/blog