I'm Getting My New M3 & Lens CLAd - A Bit Apprehensive...

<p>Though I haven't taken many shots with it, I like what I have and my "new" 62 year-old M3 and collapsible<br>

50 Summicron are off to Sherry Krauter who was recommended highly here. I US-Mailed overnight, pricey but I want as few people handling it and as few transfers vehicle to vehicle as possible.</p>

<p>It already may have gotten a boo-boo in initial shipping to me. This is a hair or fabric thread-like line right in the patch, and the Seller who I trust said he hadn't noticed before sending. You can't miss it. If that's true either a hair got into a completely encased, boxed camera surrounded by shipping material or the box was dropped, hit etc and the hair, as a poster pointed out, could be a crack in a prism just starting. </p>

<p>So, I'm apprehensive about that, but I'd like to find out now + give a camera in storage for many years a good lube and cleaning. If it's OK, I have what looks like a brand new 1955 Leica and Lens. The only flaw (cross fingers about the "hair") is pin-prick size indentation in the glass of the rear lens/element. It affects nothing so.... but I'd like Sherry to take a look at it. I believe it is right in the glass. Wonder what caused that. Again, Seller says he has never seen it. He may not have, it's tiny and if you load from the bottom and leave the back closed I guess you wouldn't see it.<br>

The rest of the lenses (and actually the rest of that one) show no scratches, near pristine.</p>

<p>I'll let you know what the haps are if interested....</p>

<p>If this is all you have to worry about in your life right now, such as whether the Post Office will do the job, or Sherry will find and fix the problems, and report them to you, I sincerely feel for you. You sound as if you are somewhere off in the weeds at this point.</p>

<p>As a retired pensioner of Leica, I can't promise you any more than that. Or recommend anything better. Sleep well.</p>

Sherry will let you know and then at a certain point, unless you got the camera as a collector's item, start

shooting with it. No need for it to be pristine to get great results.

 

Also, if you packed it well enough, it shouldn't matter how many people handle the box.

<p>Ray after what the Post Office just did to a set of brass HO locomotives I just shipped I take nothing for granted. And yes they were well packed. For shipping, not for playing soccer which is apparently what happened. Not much left.</p>

<p>Rick H.</p>

 

 

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<p >"<a href="/photodb/user?user_id=147541">Michael Linn</a> , Jun 10, 2015; 11:37 p.m."</p>

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<p>If this is all you have to worry about in your life right now, such as whether the Post Office will do the job, or Sherry will find and fix the problems, and report them to you, I sincerely feel for you. You sound as if you are somewhere off in the weeds at this point."<br>

As a retired pensioner of Leica, I can't promise you any more than that. Or recommend anything better. Sleep well."</p>

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Well, no, I have a few more things to worry about in my life beyond Sherry and The Post Office.

Photography is a nice respite from serious problems. I don't get the phrase "off in the weeds".

 

Also don't think I understand:

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<p>as a retired pensioner of Leica, I can't promise you any more than that. Or recommend anything better. Sleep well.<br>

Any more than "THAT" - what is "THAT"? Or recommend anything better, better than "What"?</p>

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<p>Sometime I'd like to pack a camera, and on the outside have several official looking stamps saying: WARNING! PACKAGE CONTAINS SMALLPOX BACTERIUM! HANDLE WITH EXTREME CARE!</p>

<p>After I was paroled from Federal Prison, it would be a good laugh.</p>

<p>Gotta admit...a 1st world problem here.</p>

<p>I share your post phobia & am procrastinating a ride to Solms...<br>

Good luck!</p>

<p>Smallpox was caused by two viruses and its bacteria should be put into the public baths into which postmen throw parcels.</p>

<p>Condy's crystals / potassium permanganate is what should go into baths. That's what gay young things used to throw into the El-Alamein Fountain in Kings Cross to create a stir. </p>

<p>Sounds like you really like your camera. Good enough, I like mine too, and I'm pretty fussy. A little too fussy perhaps. So fussy that I don't even take pictures any more, just collect cameras and fondle them. I hope this doesn't happen to you. I'm working hard to break out of this fetish so that I can make pictures again. Check out this link. You might enjoy looking at the camera of a guy who also "liked his camera but liked to shoot pictures even more"......and, he shot some pretty good ones......lots and lots of them.<br>

https://www.cameraquest.com/LeicaM4G.htm</p>