Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Water resistance
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@istar.ca>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 23:40:42 -0400

Tina:

You need a Nikonos for those occasions.  I think most National Geographic
Photographers have one in their kit.

Regards,

Robert

At 09:00 PM 3/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
>At 12:57 AM 3/21/99 +0000, you wrote:
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>>How water resistant are M6 bodies and lenses compared to other brands of
>>camera? How careful do you have to be?
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>They are not water resistant but then neither is any other camera :-)
>The M6 can get slightly damp - a rain storm - without hurting any
>complicated electronics.  But if you drop it in a river or spend 8 hours in
>a canoe in the rainy season in Honduras, it has to go back to Leica.  I
>have one there now that spent less than 2 seconds underwater.  It's costing
>me about $1000 to get it repaired.  However, I would not have carried any
>other camera into similar situations.
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>Leically,
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>Tina
>Tina Manley, ASMP
>http://www.tinamanley.com/
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