M6 50 Summi meets old man tumble…

[BenMathes]

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so I tripped on a water bottle at my grandson’s fishing tournament and landed full force on my camera and lens- I’m 6’ 220…

the 50 summi is just a bit stiff when I focus, but works fine

the M6 body just shook it off

and this from a camera over 35 years old!

so many years (40+) doing documentary work in 27 countries- mainly with R and M series ( a few errant years with overweight great Canon gear…) I’ve never crashed any camera like this one

and it’s just fine! 
 

im only 72, but think these M6’s just may outlast me!
 

thank you Leica!!!
 

[GFW2-SCUSA]

This harrowing story raises three questions:  How did you fair after the fall 2. Did your grandson win the fishing tournament 3: What was the condition of the water bottle?  

Leica's a wonderfully strong camera which seems to be able to take quite a tumble! 

 

[250swb]

A nice story. Leica’s were never made to be babied, that is why they are over-engineered in the first place. It’s only the more recent ‘luxury’ connotations that have taken people down the rabbit hole of protection and paranoia.

[JonWall51]

Last week my son borrowed my 1986 M6 with 50 Chron, furiously pedalled off on his bicycle in the rain with the camera round his neck and, needless to say, skidded and came off the bike with his knee, the camera baseplate and lens filter taking the full force of the fall. Damage: one nastily grazed leg, a broken filter, a slightly scratched baseplate and a lens whose focussing ring had been a little stiff (I'd been planning to take it in for CLA) now functioning perfectly. These things are built like tanks. My son sadly not quite so sturdy ...

Edited July 24 by JonWall51

[250swb]

18 hours ago, JonWall51 said:

Last week my son borrowed my 1986 M6 with 50 Chron, furiously pedalled off on his bicycle in the rain with the camera round his neck and, needless to say, skidded and came off the bike with his knee, the camera baseplate and lens filter taking the full force of the fall. Damage: one nastily grazed leg, a broken filter, a slightly scratched baseplate and a lens whose focussing ring had been a little stiff (I'd been planning to take it in for CLA) now functioning perfectly. These things are built like tanks. My son sadly not quite so sturdy ...

It's amazing that Leica lenses can fix themselves given a shove 😉

I think what probably caused it to stiffen initially was the screws holding lens flange on gradually loosening over time with twisting it on and off the camera and it's an easy fix for stiff focusing, just loosen the screws and gradually tighten them up again opposite to opposite like tightening down a cars cylinder head.