[Leica] Re: CLA intervals

[Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>]

I'm from the school "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Perhaps I'm lucky.
But I have never sent anything in for anything unless it wasn't working
properly. Since 1976, many R cameras and lenses, used relentlessly,
Hasselblad, now M cameras as well, I've never had a Hasselblad fail, never
had an R camera fail, had one sticky diaphragm in an R lens, knocked an M6
RF out of alignment once, froze an R-lens f/stop ring by dropping ice cream
on it. That's basically the history of sending camera equipment in.

I have seen more grief by colleagues, AFTER something was supposed to have
been fixed. So I'm not going to tempt the repair folks by allowing them to
mess with my perfectly working equipment. No matter how long I've been
using it. Sometimes stuff just settles-in, becomes happy, and works forever.

Jim


At 07:08 PM 9/22/99 -0500, Gary Klein wrote:
>I usually have my camera CLA'd (M42) every five years.  So I had it done in
>1987,93 and early in 1999.  I have had few problems with my M that way.
>
>Same goes for my mechanical Nikons.  I usually have them gone through every
>couple of years or so.  Its really important even with electronic cameras as
>the tech can do fine tuning which will optimize the operation of the camera.
>The tech can also find things to inspect and or repair before they become a
>big and expensive thing.
>
>At work my EOS 1n camera go in every year (with 5 rolls a day banging though
>them its a good idea.  Strange as it may seem, my A2e has yet to go in.  I
>suppose minutes after I write this something will crap out on the box.
>Murphy's law you know.
>
>Another good thing is that you keep a simple word processing file on your
>computer with information about your cameras, serial numbers and when you've
>had them repaired or cleaned.  I do this and find it easy to keep track of
>my multiple body, multiple system camera collection.
>
>Most of all it takes common sense.
>
>gck
>