Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There's a famous story of a US jet pilot in a Phantom 25,000 feet above the Arizona(?) desert having to eject. A photographic sortie with another Phantom had gone horribly wrong and in the process of ejection his SL2 Mot fell out and eventually landed on the ground. Eventually, the camera was found and it was remarkably together, hardly a bruise on it. I can't recall if it was working but it looked as if it could have done. A famous Leica photographer (I forget which one) was photographing the honey collectors in North India, I believe, and dropped his 80mm Summilux-R onto the jungle floor some 100 feet below his precarious position dangling from a vine rope. The bees build their hives under cliff overhangs and the only way of reaching them is by dangling on a thread. Needless to say, the lens was recovered and pressed back into service, battered but useable. Jem > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry S. Justianto [SMTP:jsjm6@cbn.net.id] > Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 12:43 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Leica Horror Stories > > Probably you already read my message where I drop my 35 cron ASPH lense to > a > marble tile from table and nothing is happening. The Leica lense built > like > a tank! > > Can I hear another horror stories of Leica?