Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Paul Schliesser wrote: >>Two months later I was >>hiking in the mountains, with the camera and an equally new 35mm Summicron >>hanging from my shoulder by the official strap. Suddenly the camera fell >>onto rocks, destroying both itself and the lens. The eyelet to which the >>camera strap was attached had loosened from the body. > >I have one slightly loose strap eyelet each on my M3 and M4-2. Is there >any way to tighten them? I had never worried about it before, but if they >can acutally pull out... I think of all the times I've been on bridges or >hanging over abysses... > I believe that the eylets were rivetted. As you might imagine, I don't have that camera anymore. On the other hand, I haven't worried excessively about the same thing happening to other camera bodies; all have been fine. * /|\ Henning J. Wulff /###\ Architecture |[ ]| henningw@portal.ca