[Leica] Never hold a dogleash with your elbow while changing lenses

[leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

Yes would be different with a 90/2 lens or so! :-)


>OUCH!
>At least the Heliar is built to cope with such problems.
>ric


>>Seems to be a bad week for some LUGgers like Daniel and me.
>>Was at the Rheinfall in Schaffhausen with one of my sons and our  
>>dog. Had the dogleash in the left ellbow and wanted to change two  
>>lenses, a 15mm Heliar and a 50mm collapsible Summicron. Following  
>>Murphy's law the dog pulled the leash in the very wrong moment, and  
>>both lenses dropped off my hands to the stoney ground, at the  
>>border of the Rhein river. The heavier Summicron stayed in front of  
>>me, the lighter Heliar rolled over the stones toward the water.  
>>With a brilliant goalkeeper dive roll parade my son could catch it  
>>before it reached the river.
>>No glass was touched. But the brass bayonet mount of the Summicron  
>>has a tough ding which needs to be filed off. That's less bad than  
>>what happened to the Aluminium body of the Heliar. The inbuilt hood  
>>wing was slightly bended toward the lens, and both aperture and  
>>focus rings were strongly hit and are now almost unusable. I can  
>>focus when the aperture ring is at wide open, but as soon as I stop  
>>down, the focus ring is completely blocked. The aperture ring  
>>itself needs much power to move.
>>I have now fixed it to f5.6-8 (sweet spot of that lens) and almost  
>>at infinity - a setting that works in 90% of the shots I make with it.
>>Maybe I'll disassemble it one day. Will see.
>>Didier