RE: [Leica] Out Damned Spot!

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Or get spit back out...!:-)

And if Ted can laugh at this.....;-)
B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Ted Grant
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 10:19 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Out Damned Spot!
>
>
> Buzz Hausner wrote:
> >
> > I recently promised myself not to try and be funny on the LUG
> ever again,
> > which promise I have blithely violated.  US$575 for a new curtain was a
> > joke, albeit an un-funny joke.<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> Hi Buzz,
> Sure it was funny!  Anyone with half a humour cell would know it was a
> tongue in cheek posting!  :-)  Like gee whiz eh, common humour eh! :-)
>
> Some folks miss humour in the morning before the coffee has had time to
> kick in! ;-)
>
> ted
> Victoria, Canada
> http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bergman, Mark A. [mailto:mabergm@nppd.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:42 AM
> > To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Out Damned Spot!
> >
> > I don't know what Solms plans are but I can tell you in today dollars it
> > doesn't cost no stinkin $575 to replace the curtain.  I
> recently proved that
> > lens' caps do have a function when I burned a hole in my shutter curtain
> > (the curtain with the spot).  Sherry Kraunter charged me around $250 to
> > replace the curtain and do a CLA, plus insurance and return
> shipping.  The
> > curtain was around a $60 part.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Buzz Hausner [mailto:Buzz@marianmanor.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 7:19 AM
> > To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> > Subject: [Leica] Out Damned Spot!
> >
> > Solms plans for the gray meter spot to turn yellow at
> approximately sixteen
> > years, at which point the camera must go back to have the
> curtain replaced
> > at a cost of nearly US$575.00.  Really, Javier, just keep taking
> > pictures...when your meter seems to be going off a bit have your shutter
> > speeds checked and keep taking pictures.  Getting consistently
> bad exposures
> > at both high and low speeds?  Get the meter calibrated by a good repair
> > person and then keep taking pictures.  Follow these guidelines for about
> > fifty years at which point your children can keep taking
> pictures with your
> > Ms.
> >
> >         Buzz Hausner
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Javier Perez [mailto:summarex@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:59 PM
> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Fw: Leica FS
> >
> > Hi
> > I have been wondering about the longevity of metered Ms for
> > awhile. Specifically, is there any indication that the colour of the
> > white curtain dot won't change with age to something yellowish
> > or off white? That would throw off the meter for sure.
> > Javier
>