[pure-silver] Re: pure-silver Digest V1 #21

I have a mid-30s Leica IIIa that I bought for $25 in 1960. It always 
had that problem at 1/1000th sec. A few years ago, when 1/500th stopped 
working. I had the camera CLAed by John Maddox, who only repairs 
screw-mount Leicas. It's worked perfectly ever since. AFAIK this was 
the ONLY repair this camera ever had  in it's nearly 70 year existance.

Maddox's contact information can be found in this listing of Leica 
repair persons:

http://www.nemeng.com/leica/007e.shtml

I also had him CLA my Leica IIIf and recommend him highly.

Bob Marvin

On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 12:08  AM, Shannon Stoney wrote:

> I have an old Leica rangefinder camera from the thirties.  The other
> day I took it to the beach and shot a roll of film at 1/1000 of a
> second, because there was so much light.  But, most of the frames are
> only partially exposed on one side.  Can I conclude that the shutter
> just doesn't work at that speed?  It seems to work fine at the more
> usual speeds of 1/60th, 1/100th, etc. I wonder if this is a common
> problem for old cameras.

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