OzRay
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Just when things were going smoothly, along comes Murphy and spoils things.
A couple of days ago, the aperture ring on my Leica 135mm started to play up and being the mechanically skilled guru that I am, I loosened the screws on the ring to find out what was going on and that was that, no more working aperture. So I made some enquiries and found that one of the camera stores that I've bought gear from before can do Leica lens repairs. That'll be about $160 thank you very much. I also found out from the repairer that Leica do some sneaky things in their lens design and even the experts can have issues working out how things are put together.
The other thing that happened today was when I grabbed my camera bag in the morning, the Pen 2 fell out and landed on our timber floor, not the carpet of course, and in doing so broke the lens hood attached to the Minolta M-Rokkor 40mm. The lens hood was of the vented style, as that's all I could find earlier on, but fortunately nothing else was damaged. Maybe the breaking of the hood saved the lens and filter. That'll be about $15 to replace, but this time with a non-vented type.
My only worry is that things always seem to come in threes, so I'm desperately trying to think whether there's something that preceded all of this and I can relax somewhat. I don't think my broken arm counts.
Cheers
Ray
A couple of days ago, the aperture ring on my Leica 135mm started to play up and being the mechanically skilled guru that I am, I loosened the screws on the ring to find out what was going on and that was that, no more working aperture. So I made some enquiries and found that one of the camera stores that I've bought gear from before can do Leica lens repairs. That'll be about $160 thank you very much. I also found out from the repairer that Leica do some sneaky things in their lens design and even the experts can have issues working out how things are put together.
The other thing that happened today was when I grabbed my camera bag in the morning, the Pen 2 fell out and landed on our timber floor, not the carpet of course, and in doing so broke the lens hood attached to the Minolta M-Rokkor 40mm. The lens hood was of the vented style, as that's all I could find earlier on, but fortunately nothing else was damaged. Maybe the breaking of the hood saved the lens and filter. That'll be about $15 to replace, but this time with a non-vented type.
My only worry is that things always seem to come in threes, so I'm desperately trying to think whether there's something that preceded all of this and I can relax somewhat. I don't think my broken arm counts.
Cheers
Ray
