Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Last Thanksgiving, I am going to see my parents. Load the kids up in the wagon, load the luggage, and almost as an afterthought casually drop the M6-TTL in the back. We drive 1.5 hours and arrive at my parents. At this point I have compeltely forgotten that the camera is loaded with the luggage, my mind is numbed since the kids (3 and 5yrs) have been at each other throats for almost the entire drive and I have been listening to Barney music! Right now all I want to do is get inside, pour some Laphroig down my throat and let my kids be perfect angels with their grandparents. Did I mention that I have now forgotten that the Leica is loaded with the luggage? So as I am grumpily and brutishly unloading the luggage, out of the bootom corner of my eye I see something go flying out of the wagon. There is a grinding/crushing sound as it hits the stone pavement about 3 feet away. ARGGHHHH... that was my Leica! Scratched bottom plate on the M6, but the 50 Summicron took most of the impact. No visible damage but the focus ring jams and required real force to turn. R. Mueller fixed it for me. Jonathan Lee