My m7 got scratched today...

[tmfabian]

I have to say it's a strange feeling to be excited to see an expensive piece of equipment get scratched...but i saw that brass under there and just couldn't help but be excited it got a little scuffed.

 

[Tuolumne]

Get a new one. I would!

/T

 

[SolaresLarrave]

When one of my Leicas lost one of the decorative black dots that are on each of the four corners of the back lid, I felt like a pro. After all, those little dots have no function other than get lost and make you feel like the rugged journalist, don't they?

 

[Lance]

I guess that's the difference between having the protective plastic on the bottom plate or not...

I prefer cameras to be clean when I get them, but I want to do the scratching myself. That protective plastic is coming off my "new" M6 pretty soon. I just have to gather some nerve.

 

[MartinP]

Hmmm, that Mazda MX5 . . . is it screw-mount or bayonet ?

 

[Ken Ford]

When one of my Leicas lost one of the decorative black dots that are on each of the four corners of the back lid, I felt like a pro. After all, those little dots have no function other than get lost and make you feel like the rugged journalist, don't they?

Careful, Francisco. Those little bumpers prevent damage to the hinged back when it's flipped open!

 

[rogue_designer]

congratulations.

proof you're a photographer first, fondler second.

 

[pingle]

congratulations.

proof you're a photographer first, fondler second.

Well, that or just a "brassing fondler"

 

[peter_n]

I've thought about offering a service to owners of expensive new cameras, charging a reasonable fee to take their cameras with me for a few weeks as I go through my days as a photojournalist. Instead of them having to wait months or years to get that first scratch, they could enjoy that genuine "been through a war zone" look in mere weeks!

Your idea has merit! OT but there was a wonderful writer in Dublin called Myles na gCopaleen (who's real name was Brian O’Nolan and he also wrote under the name Flann O’Brien). He had a regular column in The Irish Times that was full of fun and amazing characters. One column memorably twitted the aspiring lower-middle classes in Dublin by offering a book-handling service, whereby he would purchase some books of choice, flip through them several times and bend a couple of covers, then insert a theater or museum ticket as a bookmark. Instant cachet!

 

[existrandom]

ha ha, i like this story of Myles na gCopaleen and service to help scratched up a camera

i have so many friends who have walls of bookshelf 80% of the content unread... as a matter of fact my brother is a kind of bliblophile, is that is the word for someone who buy vintage editon and wrap them in plastic and do many precaustion fearing the pages would rust...

 

[aizan]

if owning a leica doesn't make you a photographer, putting marks on it does!

 

[jimmygcreative]

I love cameras that are used and have brass! I think we should have a lets see your brassing leica thread!

 

[Artorius]

Finally, out of the way

Finally, out of the way

Now you can take it anywhere without worry. I've yet to mar my M8, but, my other M's 3 & 4-P are used but not abused.
I was an E5 Photomate. At the first scratch on my M2 I thought I was going to cry. Then I realized, if I am going to use these things in a combat zone, who cares, as long as I can use it, I am doing OK. Fortunately, I lasted longer than my first pair of M2's. The first saved my life by taking a round, and my second(back-up) fell off and landed on a bouncing betty. 2 cameras, 2 life saving events. I am still in amazement as to why it took me so long to come back to Leica. None of my Nikons ever did anything close, except in '71 when my personal FTn caught a round through the lens and stopped in the shutter.
Excuse my ramblings, I left the Nam this birthday weekend, 1973.

 

[edodo]

amazing art, your leicas M2 story is inspiring!

 

[Roger Hicks]

Now you can take it anywhere without worry. I've yet to mar my M8, but, my other M's 3 & 4-P are used but not abused.
I was an E5 Photomate. At the first scratch on my M2 I thought I was going to cry. Then I realized, if I am going to use these things in a combat zone, who cares, as long as I can use it, I am doing OK. Fortunately, I lasted longer than my first pair of M2's. The first saved my life by taking a round, and my second(back-up) fell off and landed on a bouncing betty. 2 cameras, 2 life saving events. I am still in amazement as to why it took me so long to come back to Leica. None of my Nikons ever did anything close, except in '71 when my personal FTn caught a round through the lens and stopped in the shutter.
Excuse my ramblings, I left the Nam this birthday weekend, 1973.

Dear Art,

That is indeed remarkable. So far I've seen one Nikon F that saved a friends's life in Vietnam (hell of a dent in it). Three times must be a record -- though the same friend is the only person I know who has been (mistakenly) pronounced DoA twice.

Cheers,

R.