Dropped summicron, reassure me.

Hopefully this is closer to $75. I talked to DAG today and he thought he could bend it back into shape for $80. I'll drop it in the mail tomorrow.

yossarian123 said:
Well it was a pretty dumb mistake but my v4 50mm cron took a 3 ft fall onto a concrete floor. Good news is that the aperture blades seem fine and the glass is intact. The only problem is the focus is now frozen - it looks like the lens took the impact on its side directly on the depth of field scale. This outer focus ring is now bent out of round, which I'm assuming is what's causing the focus to be frozen.

Has this ever happened to anyone ? Is it repairable and if so does it require a trip to Leica or can DAG handle it? I'll be calling Don first thing tomorrow morning, I'm just looking for a little comfort in the meantime.
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swoop said:
I've dropped lenses and had them stick. DAG fixed and cleaned my 35 'cron for $75, took about 6 weeks to get it back. I Also dropped a 50 'cron with again the same issue, a stuck focus ring. Sent that one to Leica, cost a little over $300 to fix but got it back in 1 week.
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Phil_F_NM said:
Similar thing happened to my DR Summicron. It got dropped on a marble floor in one of Saddam's outlying HQ buildings near Fallujah, Iraq.
Focus froze and the mounting flange was bent.
Seeing as there was no Leica service there, I took the lens to the machine shop in our camp, stuck the mount in a vise and squeezed it back into round between two little shims of wood. Once the focus was working better, I got to the mounting flange and with some channel locks and a file, I got the lens back on the camera. RF was still working and I gauged it against a piece of tape on the film plane. Focus was still perfect.


Phil Forrest
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Vise and Channel locks............A man after my own heart.
 
I reckon you'll have it back in service without too much expense. If not, get a Zeiss C Sonnar 50. I have dropped mine THREE times. Never ever dropped anything else. First time from chest height onto a hardwood floor. Bent a B&W filter lip. Second time dropped it and an M5 behind it from the piano stool onto the same flooring. Bent the hood. Third time it rolled off a chair onto a concrete floor, not bending anything. Still works perfectly.
 
I have been beyond lucky with my poor 'cron 50 (purchased new in 2004). Once, I dropped it on a wooden floor (Central Camera in Chicago) and nothing happened. Then, a few months later, it fell off my pocket on a snowy sidewalk. Just as cool...

But then, a couple of weeks ago, my Nikon S2 took a dive off a chair. You figure the height: less than two feet. That was it! :eek: No focusing, RF off... It's at Don's Lens Spa right now...

Sam, you're lucky... BTW, I have a new friend now... And it has a red dot next to the lens mount! :)
 
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