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Subject: [Leica] I dropped my M!
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 22:44:49 +0200
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Yeah, and did it take good pictures?

Nathan Wajsman
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On Sep 1, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:

> Oh, did you also trip over it?
> S.d.
>
>
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> Ya gotta realize that sometimes tools do drop and fall onto hard  
>> stuff.  I remember once I slipped and
>> dropped a SNAP-ON  1/2 inch drive, ratchet wrench on my paved stone  
>> driveway!  Oh the agony ;-)
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>>> John, every Leica owner on the list feels your pain (or should).  
>>> At least
>>> you now have an honorable scar but not a repair bill.
>>> There is no sadder sound than the thunk of Leica meeting stone!
>>>
>>> 2009/9/1 John Beeching <johnbeeching at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> I suppose it has to happen some time, but it is painful when it  
>>>> does.  I've
>>>> had my M6 for ten years now, put thousands of films through it,  
>>>> taken it
>>>> all
>>>> over the world - up tributaries on the Amazon in dugout canoes,  
>>>> across
>>>> India, up Kilmanjaro, etc. - but have never dropped it.  This  
>>>> summer I was
>>>> walking around a French chateau when the split ring on the strap  
>>>> worked
>>>> itself off and the camera dropped off my shoulder onto the stone  
>>>> floor.  Of
>>>> course it had on a heavier lens than my usual 35mm Summicron, the  
>>>> 90mm
>>>> Elmarit.  It was more painful than when I cut off half my big toe  
>>>> with a
>>>> lawnmover.  I staggered to a cafe and ordered a double espresso  
>>>> and a large
>>>> brandy to calm myself down before checking the camera out.   The  
>>>> damage: a
>>>> dent on the camera body just below the winder and a bent lens  
>>>> hood.  It
>>>> still seemed to be able to focus as before and the shutter fired  
>>>> OK.  I put
>>>> plenty more film through it since the drop and have got used to  
>>>> its war
>>>> wounds, though they do ache when the weather is damp.  I am now  
>>>> steadily
>>>> developing all the film.  The negatives look as good as ever,  
>>>> though I have
>>>> yet to scan them, but I envisage no problem.
>>>>
>>>> The cause of the disaster.  I do not like plastic and so I had  
>>>> replaced the
>>>> strap that came with the camera with a leather (for Leica) one  
>>>> from Luigi (
>>>> http://www.leicatime.com/).  The split ring had worked off the  
>>>> camera once
>>>> before, though I noticed it in time.  I should have taken that  
>>>> for a
>>>> warning
>>>> and gone back to the plastic Leica strap.  However, I did try to
>>>> cannibalise
>>>> the rings of the genuine Leica strap on to the leather one but  
>>>> without
>>>> success.  Needless to say I now have the genuine plastic strap on  
>>>> my M6.
>>>>
>>>> Yours,
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> John Beeching
>>>> http://johnbeeching.com/
>>>>
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Replies: Reply from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] I dropped my M!)
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Message from glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer) ([Leica] I dropped my M!)
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