Re: [Leica] Re: Help: 1/5th sec on IIIf red dial

["Guido Soprano" <guidosoprano@hotmail.com>]

Dan, exactly my thoughts (finally).


Guido, a little calmer now.


>From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Help: 1/5th sec on IIIf red dial
>Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 17:28:41 -0400
>
>Guido-
>Give them a chance to make it right. They are not highly touted for doing
>faulty work, if they are highly reputable they got that way for a reason.
>Any respectable repair person would rather have the opportunity to set
>things right than to have the bad reputation.
>Dan
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Guido Soprano <guidosoprano@hotmail.com>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 12:38 PM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Help: 1/5th sec on IIIf red dial
>
>
> > Hi Stan,
> >
> > thanks for your response, sharing my pain :=)
> >
> > Normally, I would just live with it. But...mine just came back from a
>highly
> > respected (by this list, at least) independent Leica Service station
>(whose
> > name shall not be provided, to protect the guilty), after a $180 (plus
> > packing & shipping) CLA. Before it went, 1/5 was fine, all I wanted done
>was
> > to have the wind mechanism lubed so it was lighter on the thumb.
> >
> > Should I send it back, ask for my money back, send it somewhere else, or
> > some combination? Opinions welcomed.
> >
> > So, we have a made-in-the-50's camera, when, according to some on this
>list,
> > Leica could only produce perfection, serviced by one of the best for 
>about
> > 1/3 the value of the camera...and it doesn't work right. I'm pissed, 
>just
> > not sure where to direct it :=(
> >
> > Guido the poorly timed.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: Stanley E Yoder <syoder+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
> > >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > >Subject: [Leica] Re:  Help: 1/5th sec on IIIf red dial
> > >Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 19:21:44 -0400 (EDT)
> > >
> > >     Excerpts from mail: 30-Jul-99 Leica Users digest V10 #53 by Leica
> > >Users digest@mejac
> > > > Except 1/5 second, which sounds like 1/25. If I move the slow speed
>dial
> > >to
> > > > just before the 1/5 indent, I get what sounds like 1/5th.
> > >
> > >     Guido, my IIIF RD has exactly the same syndrome: to get 1/5 I have
> > >to set it off the detent ever so slightly in the direction of 1/2sec.
> > >     I have no idea why this is, but since we both know what to do 
>about
> > >it, why bother to send it off for repair?
> > >     Also, the self-timer on mine has seized up. I know what to do 
>about
> > >that too - I don't use it!
> > >     Actually, it is a little comforting to know that I'm not alone 
>with
> > >the 1/5. But it's no big sweat.
> > >
> > >     While, I'm on, here's one: my 50/2 LTM Summicron yields slides
> > >slightly-but-noticeably warmer than my other LTM lenses. I'm running a
> > >test now using an 82A filter to cool things off a couple hundred deg.K.
> > >Anyone else have this? (Change the subject head if you reply.)
> > >Stan Yoder
> > >Pittsburgh
> >
> >
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