Lieca M6 repair estimate. Need help

[sillwio]

Hello everybody. I'm not so often posting here on rff but reading the forum every single day. Couple of months ago I've bought my first and only Leica M6 classic with 50mm summicron lens. Camera and lens yesterday landed onto concrete. Cosmeticaly camera and lens look ok. There is a small dent on the edge of the bottom plate (near the opening lever) and on the third party lens hood. I've tested functionality and found, that exposure setting wheel rotates very hardly (nevertheless it is possible to rotate it and it seems that all settings are working properly), film winding and rewinding is working, exposure meter is working. I think that rangefinder is misaligned (if not worse) but I can't check it because the lens now could be unscrewed and separated into 2 pieces if I turn aperture ring (I haven’t tried to unscrew it completely). Did someone had similar accident and what could be expected repair price?

 

[totifoto]

o man that sounds horrible 😕

have you sent DAG an e-mail about this? He could at least give you some idea I hope.

 

[sillwio]

Thanks for your answer totifoto. I haven't sent an email to DAG. Since I want to do the repair in Europe (I'm in Sweden) I've sent inquiries to 2 places here in Europe. Thought maybe you guys could help me as well.

 

[Q-dog]

I recently sent my M2 to Will van Manen in the Netherlands for a CLA. The cost was about the same as a CLA in Sweden and the job was first class. They were also very quick and responsive.

/Ola

 

[abumac]

Look here: http://www.fotomechanik-reinhardt.de/

 

[Ronald M]

Use a strap, long around the arm or a wrist strap.

Sit down to change lenses or work over grass.

 

[sillwio]

Thank you all for suggestions!

Ronald M, normally I'm very careful with my equipment. This time it was my mistake - leica was hanging on the baby stroller. I took my little boy from the stroller and forgot that on the stroller was hanging a bag as well. Because the center of gravity has changed the stroller went wheels up 🙁

 

[borrel]

Kanskje noen gode råd her? : http://photo.net/leica-rangefinders-forum/007Ep8

 

[sillwio]

Kanskje noen gode råd her? : http://photo.net/leica-rangefinders-forum/007Ep8

Tusen tack borrel!

 

[Turtle]

Bad luck there! It might not be as bad as you think, with more adjustments required than replacement of parts.

Use a strap, long around the arm or a wrist strap.

Sit down to change lenses or work over grass.

I agree on straps, but one cannot avoid working over hard surfaces sometimes and frantically at that. I use straps on the bodies and to solve problems with lens changes, I always employ one of the following:

• Small lens pouch on my belt. Empty. I put the lens coming off in that before fishing out the new lens. This means I never have two lenses in my hand at one time (or both hands busy with one in each). I use it for temporary storage and repack the bag as my mind expects to find it when I have time.
  
• Spare compartment in my camera bag to place the lens coming off, so lenses are never 'switching places'. This redundant space is useful when the chaos of time pressure enters the equation. In my opinion, inexperienced photographers pack far too densely. You need space to work within a bag. There is nothing worse than having to shoehorn items into a tight spot to get them back in the bag, or move things about to extract something. Lots of people fuss over whether to use a Leica 28 apsh or V4 pre asph but do not work on their equipment routine, which IMHO has FAR more of an impact one one's ability to use equipment effectively.... and take good photos!