desmocrat Posted May 21, 2012 Share #41 Posted May 21, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) In 1978, at a state basketball championship, an overzealous fan attacked me from the rear thinking I was someone else. It launched my Nikon F2A Photomic about 20 feet through the air onto a sidewalk. There was a small dent on the bottom corner of the body, but the camera and lens performed perfectly ever after. I didn't press charges. Didn't need to, the guy was being arrested for public intoxication. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Shadow Blaster Posted May 21, 2012 Share #42 Posted May 21, 2012 Was in Mongolia and my driver dropped my camera bag onto the concrete parking lot at Ulan Bator airport but the bag (Fogg b laika) apparently had enough padding to protect my new M7 and 50mm Summilux asph. The driver looked at me with a concerned expression although he had no idea what was in the bag. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Negative Posted May 21, 2012 Share #43 Posted May 21, 2012 Yesterday I was participating in and shooting AIDS Walk New York 2012... I scrambled up a rather unfriendly rock to gain a better vantage point to shoot the walkers streaming by. My feet started to slide down the steep sides of the rock and I knew I was going down. A skill I honed through many years of partying and keeping my drink upright and unspilled - has finally paid off!!! I kept the M9/28 CronA firmly in my right hand, raised up the entire way down. Not a scratch on the gear - or myself. Though out of the corner of my left eye I could see a park bench rapidly approaching my temple. WHEW. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonoslack Posted May 21, 2012 Share #44 Posted May 21, 2012 Hi there Story Number One My M8 - with the WATE attached, and the Frankenfinder - nasty winter's day, walking across the very muddy fields. Blue (the dog) zooms past very fast . . catches he's head around the carrying strap and wrenches the camera from my hand - by the time I've stopped him, he's gone 30 ft, every foot the combo hit the muddy ground, collecting more mud. When I picked it up, my lovely new M8, lens and finder were encased in a lump of wet mud, just the corners showing. Careful cleaning revealed an undamaged camera hooray! all the best Jono Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonoslack Posted May 21, 2012 Share #45 Posted May 21, 2012 A splendid lunch in a small village in Crete - at the top of an 800metre cliff with a very precarious path, The taverna keeper was pressing the raki, and who were we to refuse. I had one M9 in one hand . . and my precious prototype in the other with a 75 'cron attached. I slipped on the scree, and my left hand went straight down, prototype first. The lens hood on the 75 'cron was badly dented (but brought back to functional use with a pair of pliers). the M9 prototype still bears the scar - a noticeable gouge on the top-plate at one end. However, camera and lens keep working (and I wasn't going to sell it anyway!). Then I was bereft - now it seems like an honourable battle scar. all the best Jono Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojobebop Posted May 27, 2012 Share #46 Posted May 27, 2012 last year a cell phone company starting with 't' kept overcharging me. first time 250.00. 2nd time 185.00. 3rd time 85.00. the 3rd time while on the phone my m4 dropped a few feet onto concrete. damaged the rangefinder, and put a really nice dent on camera near viewfinder. voightlander 28mm lens also damaged. (put off repairing the lens for a year). sent them both to dag. he did a great job. i guess i was surprised, but realised how delicate the rangefinder mechanism is. i have been using nikons exclusively up till 2009 when i bought my first leica. you can really bang up nikons, tho a long time ago i dropped a f3 onto a tiled floor from about 3-4 feet and the entire rewind mechanism was so severely damaged it had to be replaced. that really surprised me. it must have hit at just the right angle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ming Rider Posted May 28, 2012 Share #47 Posted May 28, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I dropped my M8 (rather swung it like a sling-shot) 2 weeks after getting it. I tripped over a rock and somehow managed to fling the camera around on the neck strap and slammed it into the ground. The result was the rangefinder out of level and a small chip to the edge of the top plate. Strangely, it developed a red line issue almost straight away. Luckily, I had a 6 month dealer warranty and it was fixed free of charge in Solms. Also turned out the internal body had a large crack in it. This was changed as well. Didn't tell the dealer about the accident though. Moral of the story. Make sure you get a decent warranty as the camera would probably have been scrap otherwise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
topoxforddoc Posted May 29, 2012 Share #48 Posted May 29, 2012 My two year old son knocked my M6TTL and 75 lux off a table whilst we were on an Alaskan cruise - broken lens mount on the camera body and 75 lux knocked out of alignment. £850 later and they were all back to new. I dropped my R8/DMR and 180 cron in the photographers pit at a rock festival. Chipped plastic shutter speed dial on the R8 and no other damage - phew! I didn't bother fixing the dial. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdfloresjr Posted June 17, 2016 Share #49 Posted June 17, 2016 I dropped my M 240 recently four feet on the sidewalk and the lens hood of the 35mm 1.4 ASPH somehow broke the fall. There was a little scratch on the hood and pinprick ding on the top plate. Picked up the camera, dusted it off and went on shooting. There is no discernible change in mechanism and photo quality. The previous week I dropped my Noctilux .95 four feet on a hardwood floor and again the lens hood broke the fall but got dented. I rounded up the dent and used the lens as usual. Again, no discernible change in performance. My big question is: Do I need to send the 240 and the lenses to the factory for a checkup even without any signs of performance deterioration? If the imaging output is still the same, what could the factory do to assess if any real damage was done? I sure don't want my camera to be a hypochondriac like its owner. May I get a response from the Leica technicians? Sleepless in Chicago Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Barnack Posted June 17, 2016 Share #50 Posted June 17, 2016 A friend dropped my pre-ASPH Summilux 50mm lens on a tile floor from a height of about three feet; no damage. I have been fortunate so far and have not dropped one of my M cameras. Being OCD about your cameras and lenses definitely helps. :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted June 17, 2016 Share #51 Posted June 17, 2016 Not dropped, but as a daily news photographer my Leica was beat up by banging against any object I ignored in the pursuit of a picture. Dents on the top plate from another camera were a given. Trashed lens hoods were common enough that we called them 'bumpers'. Regardless of all that not one Leica M was damaged to become less than perfectly functional. . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
erudolph Posted June 18, 2016 Share #52 Posted June 18, 2016 An SL story. I hadn't had the camera but a few weeks. A 28-90 vario-elmarit-r was on it. The strap was a third party strap, the type where a tongue of leather is threaded through several slots. My wife and I, along with our two dogs, were leaving a newly renovated warehouse to which a number of art galleries had relocated. A man stopped me and asked about my camera. He also had a camera. I handed him the SL and we chatted a bit. Then, for a few moments, I was distracted by a conversation my wife was having with someone else about the dogs. The man handed me the SL back. I put the strap on my shoulder and an instant later it slipped off the strap and, from about hip height, hit the concrete sidewalk. Three little dings on the top of the camera, all still fully functional. Maybe there is a tiny bit of play in the R-M adapter that wasn't there before. Not sure about that. A really depressing moment, that of the impact. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mute-on Posted June 18, 2016 Share #53 Posted June 18, 2016 Not dropped, but as a daily news photographer my Leica was beat up by banging against any object I ignored in the pursuit of a picture. Dents on the top plate from another camera were a given. Trashed lens hoods were common enough that we called them 'bumpers'. Regardless of all that not one Leica M was damaged to become less than perfectly functional. . Perhaps this his is a new thread question, but with all the 28 ASPH front wobble issues from knocked or levered lens hoods, would current production Leica lenses stand up to using lens hoods as a 'bumper'? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomB_tx Posted June 18, 2016 Share #54 Posted June 18, 2016 Probably jinx myself, but I've used Leicas since 1968, and have never dropped one, or any camera. Hiking and rough country I've fallen myself, but my instinct has been to put my body between the ground and cameras. Even so my M4 picked up a couple tiny baseplate dents in the bag. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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