Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/01

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Dropping my Leica
From: Doug Nygren <dnygr@cshore.com>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 21:46:05 -0400

Byron,
I was sorry to read about your misfortune with your Leica lenses. I once
dropped my M6 with an old 1.4 50 mm summilux on it out the window of a
Suburban. Not a scratch and everything worked fine (whereas my R8 came
with a light leak from the factory--I guess the light leak was factory
installed).

In contrast is my experience with my Canon EOS 1N. I was photographing a
family, had the camera on a tripod, stepped away for an instant, and the
tripod collapsed (it was a good tripod which I hadn't set up correctly).
The bottom of the camera cracked and it took $300 to have it fixed. Got
to love those upper end, plastic, Japanese cameras. Thank goodness Leica
uses metal.

doug nygren