Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For what it's worth, and as a fellow subordinate to a cat, you definitely have my sympathy. I insured my M9 and lenses via my home owner's policy. They allege it's "all risk". I hope they're telling the truth. Years ago, Francisco Franco got his revenge on me. I don't any longer remember the name of the place, but not too far from Madrid is a some huge piece of architecture that he caused to be built. One descends a flight of stairs to a long room. I missed the bottom stair and fell on my face, doing serious harm to my SLR and a zoom lens. The insurance covered the repair. Remembering mishaps, I now remember a second one, also covered by insurance. This was when I was living in the UK, circa 1975. I was visiting the artificial village where The Prisoner was filmed. On the beach, jumping over a small tidal rivulet, I lost my balance and went face first into the sand. It was evident that sand had penetrated the lens threads and I had to have it disassembled and cleaned. My story was that one of those dreaded spheres had been chasing me. Herb >My MF back is on it's way to Denmark for a new piece of glass for on top of >it's sensor. It apparently got scratched and I have no idea how... > >My cat got caught up in my Canon 5DMkII strap and pulled it off the >counter. Landed on the edge of the lens (24-105) which doesn't extend >anymore and the camera sensor/bayonet mount/who-knows-what-else is >completely out of alignment. Both will be garbage bound. I already sent the >lens into Canon a year and a half or so ago and they charged me $800 to fix >it. That was just to fix the fact that when I held the camera lens pointing >down the zoom extended with just the pull of gravity. Who knows what they >would charge for this or if would ever be really right.. > >So it's all broke and so am I... >No images until the MF back comes back. I don't know what I'm going to do >for a 35.... > >Sympathy appreciated ;-) >Bob > >-- >Bob Adler >Palo Alto, CA >http://www.rgaphoto.com > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.