Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/14

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Subject: [Leica] Report on repair time by Leica USA
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:27:29 +0930
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If you look inside any modern lens you can see how they can come
loose.  But the tolerances are so good these days that it's not so
much of a worry.

A friend of mine used to call any sort of unexplained problems like
this "Saturday night palsy".

Marty


On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Vick Ko <vick.ko at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Very good. ?Wonder how an optic cell gets loose, but, hey, stuff happens.
>
> I very much prefer that, than finding out that the cell or lockring is
> cemented in.
>
> Vick
>
>
> On 8/13/2010 5:06 PM, Brian Reid wrote:
>>
>> My beloved Summilux 35/f1.4 ASPH developed some sort of lens palsy.
>> I sent it to Leica USA for warranty repair.
>> They received it on Tuesday June 1 2010.
>> I got it back, nicely repaired, today, which is Friday August 13 2010.
>> (Eek; I hadn't previously noticed that today was Friday the 13th).
>>
>> That's 10.5 weeks. Not nearly as bad as I had feared it would be.
>> They didn't waste time and money by wrapping it in a velvet bag or
>> anything like that. Just bubble wrap and foam peanuts.
>>
>> The repair receipt says:
>> ? ?Repaired loose optic cell
>> ? ?Repair focus ring
>> ? ?Adjust optics
>> ? ?Clean and lube
>> ? ?MTR
>> ? ?Test photos
>>
>> It's so good to have my favorite lens back on my camera.
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Report on repair time by Leica USA)
Message from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] Report on repair time by Leica USA)