Leica USA extended warranty coverage of curtain burn holes?

[awilder]

For those of you that have the additional 2 year extended warranty past the 3 year Passport warranty on Leica M bodies, can anyone tell me if shutter curtain replacement from a sun burn hole is covered? I know normal service is covered by this warranty but this must of happened when making a shot with the sun was just outside the frame. Technically it's considered abuse on my part but I'm not sure how strict Northvale is on these things. I'll call tomorrow but any insight from members with a similar problem would be helpful.

 

[ywenz]

that suckss.. how quickly did the burn occur?

 

[awilder]

Not long, less than 30 sec. with a 50/2 wide open. May have also been a cummulative effect from more than one occasion with the sun in a similar spot in the frame.

 

[Avotius]

I took my zeiss planar and a piece of paper and tried to burn it with a bright sun out, in less then 3 seconds the paper was toast, its shocking how much energy is passed through one of those lenses

 

[awilder]

Don Goldberg confirmed it happens surprisingly fast, a matter of seconds when he tried it with an old curtain. In my case, the sun was not very high, as it was around 8 AM and just outside the frame lines using a 50/2 @ f/2 with a vented shade in place. How paranoid should one be on setting up a shot? Maybe the thinning ozone layer is exacerbating the problem.

 

[Avotius]

Don Goldberg confirmed it happens surprisingly fast, a matter of seconds when he tried it with an old curtain. In my case, the sun was not very high, as it was around 8 AM and just outside the frame lines using a 50/2 @ f/2 with a vented shade in place. How paranoid should one be on setting up a shot? Maybe the thinning ozone layer is exacerbating the problem.

Hm...thats one of the things I wondered about when I was getting an m mount body, I usually shoot in areas where the sun is extremely strong, for instance today I was out shooting delta 100 at f11 and the time was still 1/500-1/1000 in the shadier areas. Once today after shooting in a particularly bright area I removed the lens from my bessa to inspect the shutter for any type of marks left from the sun, nothing, needless to say metal is probably going to be more resistant, and a few of the pro photo journalists that I have talked to all told me that their leicas at one point or another developed that problem, but one friend of mine who has been shooting photos in Africa for 10 years with an m6 and 35 cron has never had this problem once. Hard to say eh?

 

[Xmas]

Lens caps are effective at keeping the sun off the rubberised fabric. Alternatively use a Canon P/Bessa/etc.

Leica supplied a lens cap with the lens?

Saturday in the UK the leather of the Canon P was hot to the touch without the benifit of a magnifying glass.

Noel