But this guy has an excellent reputation among the Pentax folks. That is what was so confusing. I guess he just had a bad day or month. I agree that for Leica, Sherry Krauter or Don Goldberg get my work done. I have not used Leica directly.
Dave----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Brick" <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:52 PM Subject: :SPAM: Re: Infrared conversions - a cautionary tale
This is why the only people that have ever seen my cameras are those who have a very long history of ultra reputable service:Leica and Sherry Krauter for my Leicas. Only Hasselblad for my Hasselblads. Only Harry Fleenor for my Rolleis.I know that there are others, but these folks have been exemplary. I sent Harry Fleenor a very well used, basically ugly, SL66, for a CLA. It came back looking like a totally different camera. Absolutely gorgeous!Jim At 07:34 PM 1/11/2007 -0600, Dave Saalsaa wrote:Henning, I can relate your experience. Last year I sent a mint looking Pentax Spotmatic F to a repair person who was highly recommended on the Pentax list. A common CLA was all it needed. I received back a camera that looked very used but with the same top cover with obviously the same serial number. But the rest of the body and bottom plate were badly marred up. I knew it was not the same body because I had photogaphed it carefully before I sent it and had noted a tiny mark on the inside of the body film cavity which was not in the one I got back.. I contacted the repair person and he told me the body I had sent him was beyond repair and he felt he was doing me a good service by "giving" me a body that was working well. I replied that I had wanted this particular camera for my collection as it looked in a very clean condition. With much complaint he repaired the original body and sent me a bill for over $250 because he said he had to completely repair the shutter which had come off the rails. It had functioned fine before I sent it in for the CLA. Plus, the second time it came back the corners of the top body plate were abraded and it no longer looked in mint condition. I can't quite figure out how that would have happened in shipment as he claimed it must have. It was well wrapped in bubble wrap. So the moral of the story is, be very careful who you trust your equipment to.=========================================================To Unsubscribe: Send email to leica-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. The acknowledgment that you then receive MUST be replied to per instructions. You may also log in to the Web interface to unsubscribe.
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