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adayoncedawned
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Hello,
I purchased an M6 TTL on eBay this month. It arrived today. I was quite shocked to see how misrepresented the item was, clearly not in an excellent condition and clearly used much more than the seller had stated. But while I concerned myself with the cosmetics I began to grow increasingly frustrated with the fact that I could not remove the body cap.
Has anyone here ever experienced a stuck body cap on an M6 before? Mine has a very strange behavior - it has a small amount of play where it will move just enough so that if I push it back in the other direction, the bayonet lock will click back into place. And the whole body cap actually seems to rotate on one point somewhere near the top of the body. I think that's where whatever is preventing the cap from moving must be located. It is the spot where the cap moves the least when I move it around.
A local Leica distributor suggested to me that it's possible the cap has been mounted incorrectly and they even think it may be necessary to disassemble the body to remove it safely.
This is my second M6 purchase. I'm very excited to say that the first one I bought required a CLA due to the shutter speeds being off, but I sold that one to someone who was not as picky as myself and opted for another M6, a TTL this time as that was what I originally wanted anyway. Now this, I'm not having much luck for a camera that is supposed to be mechanically fool-proof. I'm also not having much luck finding an honest human. And worse, I bought the first one locally, in person.
It's quite disappointing since I'm trying to buy these cameras to be used, not to sit on some shelf in my den. I can't believe a seller would so obviously misrepresent an item. I even opened a dialogue with the seller before the end of the auction during which they assured me that "honestly" the camera was in excellent condition. This comes on the heels of another purchase by my best friend who picked up a 35mm Summicron, advertised as MINT, which arrived unusable - with a broken focus tab and extremely stiff action (probably the origin of the broken focus tab).
I guess I cannot decide whether this post is a dig on humanity or a call for advice on the stuck body cap. If anybody has any hints on the cap, I'd love to hear them. And if you are selling something, please describe and represent it accurately and if not, I hope you ejaculate rubbing alcohol into an eternal lake of fire.
Thank you.
I purchased an M6 TTL on eBay this month. It arrived today. I was quite shocked to see how misrepresented the item was, clearly not in an excellent condition and clearly used much more than the seller had stated. But while I concerned myself with the cosmetics I began to grow increasingly frustrated with the fact that I could not remove the body cap.
Has anyone here ever experienced a stuck body cap on an M6 before? Mine has a very strange behavior - it has a small amount of play where it will move just enough so that if I push it back in the other direction, the bayonet lock will click back into place. And the whole body cap actually seems to rotate on one point somewhere near the top of the body. I think that's where whatever is preventing the cap from moving must be located. It is the spot where the cap moves the least when I move it around.
A local Leica distributor suggested to me that it's possible the cap has been mounted incorrectly and they even think it may be necessary to disassemble the body to remove it safely.
This is my second M6 purchase. I'm very excited to say that the first one I bought required a CLA due to the shutter speeds being off, but I sold that one to someone who was not as picky as myself and opted for another M6, a TTL this time as that was what I originally wanted anyway. Now this, I'm not having much luck for a camera that is supposed to be mechanically fool-proof. I'm also not having much luck finding an honest human. And worse, I bought the first one locally, in person.
It's quite disappointing since I'm trying to buy these cameras to be used, not to sit on some shelf in my den. I can't believe a seller would so obviously misrepresent an item. I even opened a dialogue with the seller before the end of the auction during which they assured me that "honestly" the camera was in excellent condition. This comes on the heels of another purchase by my best friend who picked up a 35mm Summicron, advertised as MINT, which arrived unusable - with a broken focus tab and extremely stiff action (probably the origin of the broken focus tab).
I guess I cannot decide whether this post is a dig on humanity or a call for advice on the stuck body cap. If anybody has any hints on the cap, I'd love to hear them. And if you are selling something, please describe and represent it accurately and if not, I hope you ejaculate rubbing alcohol into an eternal lake of fire.
Thank you.
