I dropped one of mine ( well, actually I had a small conflict with a mountainside
) New top plate, new handgrip, new shutter, new front body shell, shifted sensor realigned, Summicron 35 asph focussing unsnarled: 1750 Euro...
I had an M4-2 run over by a bus way back: Top plate, bottom plate, rangefinder adjusted, some odds and ends: 1600 German Marks at a time when the body cost less than 3000.
700 Euro for an M8 top plate is getting to look like a bargain...
