Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, Ya gotta realize that sometimes tools do drop and fall onto hard stuff. I remember once I slipped and dropped a SNAP-ON 1/2 inch drive, ratchet wrench on my paved stone driveway! Oh the agony ;-) Jerry Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > John, every Leica owner on the list feels your pain (or should). At least > you now have an honorable scar but not a repair bill. > There is no sadder sound than the thunk of Leica meeting stone! > > 2009/9/1 John Beeching <johnbeeching at gmail.com> > > >> Dear All, >> >> I suppose it has to happen some time, but it is painful when it does. >> I've >> had my M6 for ten years now, put thousands of films through it, taken it >> all >> over the world - up tributaries on the Amazon in dugout canoes, across >> India, up Kilmanjaro, etc. - but have never dropped it. This summer I was >> walking around a French chateau when the split ring on the strap worked >> itself off and the camera dropped off my shoulder onto the stone floor. >> Of >> course it had on a heavier lens than my usual 35mm Summicron, the 90mm >> Elmarit. It was more painful than when I cut off half my big toe with a >> lawnmover. I staggered to a cafe and ordered a double espresso and a >> large >> brandy to calm myself down before checking the camera out. The damage: a >> dent on the camera body just below the winder and a bent lens hood. It >> still seemed to be able to focus as before and the shutter fired OK. I >> put >> plenty more film through it since the drop and have got used to its war >> wounds, though they do ache when the weather is damp. I am now steadily >> developing all the film. The negatives look as good as ever, though I >> have >> yet to scan them, but I envisage no problem. >> >> The cause of the disaster. I do not like plastic and so I had replaced >> the >> strap that came with the camera with a leather (for Leica) one from Luigi >> ( >> http://www.leicatime.com/). The split ring had worked off the camera once >> before, though I noticed it in time. I should have taken that for a >> warning >> and gone back to the plastic Leica strap. However, I did try to >> cannibalise >> the rings of the genuine Leica strap on to the leather one but without >> success. Needless to say I now have the genuine plastic strap on my M6. >> >> Yours, >> >> John >> >> -- >> John Beeching >> http://johnbeeching.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> > > > >