current 2024 (and not long wait time!) repair for Leica M5?

[yossarian123]

Short story, I'm an idiot.
Longer story, I decided to use my 50 Elmar-m on the M5 and carelessly collapsed the lens. Now the metering arm is kind of bent, slightly scrapes the side of the mount and doesn't flip up or down anymore. Meter was working beautifully before and it was one of my favorite bodies to shoot with. Just a dumb mistake really and I'll be taping my lenses in the future.

For repair it seems like DAG doesn't work on them anymore, and I'm a bit leery on using Sherry based on feedback (and cost is pretty high). Who is currently working on M5's these days in the US that doesn't have a months-long backlog?

 

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DAG repaired two of mine not long ago. Did you call him?

 

[Godfrey]

Yes, I would call Don and ask his opinion, ask whether he'd take the job. He's generally a decent person to deal with. Email might work too, but I've found he's usually much more agreeable to discussion over the phone. Email soaks up a lot of time.

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I was emailing Don today about another topic, so I asked him about the M5:


“I usually have at least 10 M5 cameras in for repair all the time.”

You won’t find anyone better and the backlog is what it is.

 

[yossarian123]

yep, just emailed him and he would fix it. Fake news I guess!

 

[hap]

good to know....