Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Dropped my M6!
From: debugger <debugger@jps.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:36:20 -0800

>> The wrist strap came apart <<
Is this the M wrist strap?  I use this a lot.  Can you tell me how it came
apart?
Ben

Ken Iisaka wrote:

> Eric Welch wrote:
> >
> > I dropped my M6 last night.
>
> Did the same on my vacation in Pulau Langkawi, Malaysia.  The wrist
> strap came apart and hit the nice marble floor of the new airport.
> Landed on its rewind crank, and bent it, rendering the camera unusable.
> The vertical alignment of the rangefinder too is off.
>
> The repair would have been so much easier on an earlier camera.  With an
> M6, you have to remove the top cover completely to adjust the vertical
> alignment.   Grrr...