Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] How do you destroy a Leica?
From: "Bruce Feldman" <brucef@waw.pdi.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:10:54 +0100

Jeez, all you really have to do is mount a UV filter on the lens!

Bruce Feldman
Warsaw

- ----- Original Message -----
From: <TTAbrahams@aol.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 1999 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] How do you destroy a Leica?


>Alex, If I remember right (I don't have the famous instruction manual any
>more), it involved hammering on the top plate until the rangefinder was all
>black, hitting the body casting with something hard (hammer, rock, butt of
the
>gun, etc.) until it was deformed, smashing the glass in the lens(es). Makes
>you cringe doesn't it! Maybe someone on the LUG has a copy of the original
>manual and can illuminate us in the proper way to destroy a Leica - rather
>than the more mundane way of shooting 10,000's rolls of film and never use
an
>(n)ever-ready case and drop the camera into the shoulder bag with no
dividers
>or padding to protect it! I think I prefer the latter way, but just in
case,
>maybe we should know how to do it properly.
>Tom A
>