[Leica] Configuring a 90 Summicron

[peter.cheyne at gmail.com (Peter Cheyne)]

So, after a brief email and follow-up phone call, Will van Mander
(full-time camera repairman since 1970) and Cathy Kuiper (trained  in-house
and working there since 2006) will finely adjust my front-focussing 90
Summicron (Canadian) for 125 Euros plus shipping, CLA work returned with a
six-month guarantee. Estimated turnaround, three weeks! Great news, seeing
as Leica Japan, Germany, and UK, plus Sherry Krauter and Don Goldberg all
had me revolving in futile circles of front-focussing forlornness.

Promising news indeed from Zoetermeer ('Sweet Lake City'), South Holland,
and unlike the no doubt rightly esteemed old hands in the New World, Sherry
Krauter and Don Goldberg, who declined to adjust the lens, this canny
outfit in the Netherlands--specializing in Leica, Hasselblad, und
Rolleiflex--are not in the least perturbed to know that the lens will be
used on a digital Leica! The modern method of this diligent Dutch duo of
analogue experts in the digital era is first to test a lens on their Leica
M (Typ 240), then set it up in their 'very expensive collimator', and test
again on the Typ 240.

I'll let the LUGgers know how it goes, hopefully within about five weeks.
Kyle, if you're reading this, stay tuned, as this this might be the
solution for your 90 'Cron that needs adjusting.

Peter