Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/13

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Subject: [Leica] Broken and Broke
From: montoid at earthlink.net (Montie)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:56:12 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

Total Bummer!  Could be spirit throwing you signs to exit digital
and return to film. ;-0  Is the cat in heaven?  :-)

Montie


>My MF back is on it's way to Denmark for a new piece of glass for on top of
>it's sensor. It apparently got scratched and I have no idea how...
>
>My cat got caught up in my Canon 5DMkII strap and pulled it off the
>counter. Landed on the edge of the lens (24-105) which doesn't extend
>anymore and the camera sensor/bayonet mount/who-knows-what-else is
>completely out of alignment. Both will be garbage bound. I already sent the
>lens into Canon a year and a half or so ago and they charged me $800 to fix
>it. That was just to fix the fact that when I held the camera lens pointing
>down the zoom extended with just the pull of gravity. Who knows what they
>would charge for this or if would ever be really right..
>
>So it's all broke and so am I...
>No images until the MF back comes back. I don't know what I'm going to do
>for a 35....
>
>Sympathy appreciated ;-)
>Bob
>
>--
>Bob Adler
>Palo Alto, CA
>http://www.rgaphoto.com



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