Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I know...Mark with a "k." Let's see if we have a trifecta operating... Do you also own a Summitar 50? At a camera store with probably 50 Leicas in its collection, I was told yesterday that my three lenses weren't worth a CLA -- too common, not that special, not that good.... All LTMs with bayonet adapters, I was told the adapters were worth more than the lenses... Not exactly a ringing endorsement... I also have a 200 Telyt and a 65 Elmar.... > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:38:02 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Leica] LTM windfall: Follow-up Question > From: mark@rabinergroup.com > To: lug@leica-users.org > > I also use a 35 Summaron and a 90 Elmar. > But my name is Mark. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > From: Gary Dalton <grdalton@hotmail.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:30:42 -0800 > > To: LUG <lug@leica-users.org> > > Subject: RE: [Leica] LTM windfall: Follow-up Question > > > > > > My M2 was asleep for 20 years and I've been exercising it: with and > > without > > film. I used a 35 Summaron and a 90 Elmar for test shots at various > > speeds and > > apertures, and they came out fine -- no flares, etc.... > > > > When I exercise the M2 without film, I've not always had a cap over the > > shutter opening. Looking into the opening before I press the button, I > > see a > > perfectly smooth black surface -- a canvas if you will. After I release > > the > > shutter, I still see most of that canvas, but at the far left end toward > > the > > rewind side of the camera, I see what appears to be a "rubber seam." > > When I > > cock the camera for the next shot, it goes away -- sliding back to the > > right. > > > > Should I be seeing this seam after I take the shot? > > > > Does seeing this seam mean that the shutter isn't closing all the way? > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:55:21 -0500 > >> To: lug@leica-users.org > >> From: marcsmall@comcast.net > >> Subject: Re: [Leica] LTM windfall > >> > >> Ken > >> > >> Welcome to the windfall. Several points. > >> > >> Mechanical cameras get lazy when allowed to sleep > >> for decades. Shucks, I am lazy all the time but > >> am worse when I get to sleep a full 12 or 14 > >> hours. Exercise the cameras for a day. Get a > >> riveting long movie to watch -- say, go to your > >> local library and check out DOCTOR > >> ZHIVAGO. Then, just keep advancing the camera > >> and snapping the shutter while you observe > >> Zhivago sink into destruction. Set it on 1/30" > >> at first but gradually move the speeds around > >> from top to bottom. In 90% of the cases, that > >> will cure the sloth mode problem. No need for a > >> CLA unless the shimming under the lens mount has > >> gotten rotten, and that is VERY rare though, to > >> be fair, it did happen on my IIIc. > >> > >> The lenses? If you cannot clean them, there is > >> only one place to send them. John Van Stelten at > >> Focal Point. Feel free to use my name: I have > >> hawked his virtues long and hard for more than > >> twenty years, and I will continue to do > >> so. Whenever I have a lens which needs service, > >> poof! it is off to Colorado. John is backlogged > >> with work but his work is impeccable. (If I were > >> as smart as Mark Rabiner, I'd recall the Latin > >> for, "forgive me, Lord, for I have sinned", as > >> that ends with "peccavi" but, alas, it is late > >> and my wife and I spent the evening watching > >> WITCHBLADE episodes, so I will give that a pass, > >> albeit I do have an MA in Classical Languages and should know better!) > >> > >> I very rarely look at the pictures folks post and > >> whether you post or not is your own > >> business. What is of concern to me is that the > >> cameras and lenses get used. These were built to > >> last for centuries and are capable of grand > >> pictures today. I would urge you to so use > >> them. Putting them on a shelf or selling them to a collector would be > >> a sin. > >> > >> Marc > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> msmall@aya.yale.edu > >> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Windows Live?: Discover 10 secrets about the new Windows Live. > > http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F > > 681DAD532637!7540.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_ugc_post_022009 > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _________________________________________________________________ Access your email online and on the go with Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_AE_Access_022009