Nickers Posted July 27, 2010 Share #1 Posted July 27, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Fellow UK members specifically, my question, as a recent owner of an M9, is how long would you consider a reasonable period of time for your camera and one lens to get from UK dealer to Solms, be paired up with an extra lens from stock in Germany (paid for and agreed in advance with Milton Keynes) calibrated together and returned to your UK dealer? Regards, Nick:confused: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jaapv Posted July 27, 2010 Share #2 Posted July 27, 2010 I wouldn't do it that way. I'd send it to Solms directly and on average expect it back in just over a week. It seems a bit overdone to have a new lens adjusted sight unseen. There is a 98% chance that it is fine as it is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickers Posted July 28, 2010 Author Share #3 Posted July 28, 2010 Thanks for the advice, direct to Solms next time. I am having the rangefinder calibrated to match my 75 'Cron, the lens from 'stock' is a new 35 'Lux. It has been widely recommended here to send all lenses/bodies off to be calibrated together, hence the arrangement. To date, it has now been 3 weeks since I handed my camera over to my dealer, and I am not convinced I am getting a straight answer from Leica UK as to where my camera is let alone when it will be returned. My dealer assured me 2 weeks turn around, which I though would be about right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
erl Posted July 28, 2010 Share #4 Posted July 28, 2010 That makes me wonder why, here in Australia, we are routinely told "8 weeks+" turnaround. Considering the actual 'traveling' time difference can't be more than 24Hrs (to anywhere in the world!), why do we suffer the "bottleneck" in service? Customs clearance procedures around thw world can't be that different. Anyway, that is my realistic expectation for my M9 + 75mm Cron to be re-built. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted July 28, 2010 Share #5 Posted July 28, 2010 Thanks for the advice, direct to Solms next time.I am having the rangefinder calibrated to match my 75 'Cron, the lens from 'stock' is a new 35 'Lux. It has been widely recommended here to send all lenses/bodies off to be calibrated together, hence the arrangement. To date, it has now been 3 weeks since I handed my camera over to my dealer, and I am not convinced I am getting a straight answer from Leica UK as to where my camera is let alone when it will be returned. My dealer assured me 2 weeks turn around, which I though would be about right. Leica UK are in a state of flux at the moment as they are closing Milton Keynes at the end of the month. AFAIK, they have never been able to adjust and match M9s and lenses anyway, and would have sent them off to Solms to be put on the adjustment rig in the factory. Many dealers who send kit back to Leica do so in batches. Your stuff might, therefore, have been sent to MK a week after you left it with your dealer (lets say). Leica in MK would then have had to assess what needed doing and then add your kit to the next batch of stuff going to Solms. That could be another week. Unless you have a dealer who is big enough to be sending stuff to Leica every day, it is much better to send it directly to Solms yourself, if time is of the essence. It will be more expensive and you will have to insure it yourself, but you will be dealing directly with the people who will be doing the work, rather than through two agents. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted July 28, 2010 Share #6 Posted July 28, 2010 Leica uses the system of calibrating against a standard body/lens. Lenses are adjusted to M8/M9 standard as they put it in their report nowadays. Once a lens is good, or a camera, it is not needed to send both in together, as Leica will adjust them seperately anyway. only if a whole set is in tolerance problems will they fit the lenses to the body. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
erl Posted July 28, 2010 Share #7 Posted July 28, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Jaap, that is interesting, and logical. Do you know if 'other' servicemen/women work to the same exacting technique? Reason for asking is that I currently have 2 lenses about to return from service (not Leica) and I was unable to send my main body (M9) with them. It is now in Solms anyway. I have been assured that the lenses will be better focused than when I sent them but not necessarily perfect without a body to match them to. This seems a different attitude from the Leica method. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted July 28, 2010 Share #8 Posted July 28, 2010 Depends whether the repairperson has a standarized (i.e. in the middle of the tolerance span) lens and body. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
erl Posted July 28, 2010 Share #9 Posted July 28, 2010 That sounds logical. Mine have just been shipped back to me. Hope to have them in maybe a week. Then I will know I guess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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