Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/23

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Getting into Leica
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Tue Oct 23 19:24:13 2007
References: <200710231926.l9NJOH3a081310@server1.waverley.reid.org> <EB16689A-DA3D-426C-871D-5198733FBBF3@comcast.net> <200710232319.l9NNJ6w6041419@server1.waverley.reid.org> <200710231943.21902.photo.forrest@earthlink.net>

At 07:43 PM 10/23/2007, Philip Forrest wrote:
 >Wow.  I guess I got the good junk camera.
 >My M4 survived an Iraqi insurgent mortar attack during which it impacted 
 >the
 >ground very hard, had the winder mechanism overwound & stripped.  Myself 
 >and
 >a machinist from my unit repaired the winder to operational condition 
 >(Leica
 >repair in Iraq is non-existant...) THEN on 
retrograde movement out of theater
 >it was flooded with Atlantic seawater.  Even after those severe episodes of
 >damage, the rangefinder worked flawlessly with no adjustments necessary.
 >CLA'd and repaired by Sherry K and it's never skipped a beat.
 >
 >If it can survive combat in the harshest environment that the military is
 >deployed to, then that junk is good enough for me.

You have an experience quite in variance to 
mine.  I have routinely bounce-tested my M3's and 
my M6, generally on concrete, but the slightest 
tap made all three of my M4"s come down with 
severe RF misalignment.  The Leitz company was 
most unhappy with the poor quality of the M4 and 
shuffled it out of production as soon as they 
could for the even more unhappy M5.  It wasn't 
until they shifted production to Midland that the quality was restored.

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!



In reply to: Message from len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier) ([Leica] Re: Getting into Leica)
Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Re: Getting into Leica)
Message from photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest) ([Leica] Re: Getting into Leica)