Long time Nikon guy just got his first Leica... whee!

[Jim Jones]

Schwinn -- You'd better hold the strap of your M6 tightly in your teeth while you-re looking at her lap. It might by the camera, not you, that she wants.

 

[Don_ih]

Given she's a dentist, my guess is she wants your money.

 

[Huss]

The reality is the smokin super hot dentist is attracted to Schwinn. It has nothing to do with the Leica.
BUT... doods like me and Schwinn who smokin super hot dentists are attracted to naturally use Leicas, because it's part of our bodacious vibe.
Which is why smokin super hot dentists (and the equivalent with doctors, veterinarians, appeals court judges and the ilk) find us irresistible.

 

[Huss]

Yep! She was fascinated by my M6. Or was it the fact that it was in my lap while she was looking at my teeth...

One question... were your teeth in your lap too?

 

[cliveh]

A Leica is the most tactile camera ever made, but the height of this tactile experience is to handle a Leica II with a collapsible 3.5 Elmar out of its case. When you press the shutter, you transcend through an earthly portal into a Zen galaxy where the rendition of any point in time and space is possible.

 

[Huss]

A Leica is the most tactile camera ever made, but the height of this tactile experience is to handle a Leica II with a collapsible 3.5 Elmar out of its case. When you press the shutter, you transcend through an earthly portal into a Zen galaxy where the rendition of any point in time and space is possible.

I think that this is how it all started with the smokin super hot dentist. She handled his collapsible Elmar. Out of its case.

 

[Don_ih]

This thread should be renamed "I just got promoted to grade 7."

 

[awty]

Just got a new button for mine, should make it easier to find the shutter release for my fatty I mean man sized fingers.

 

[Huss]

This thread should be renamed "I just got promoted to grade 7."

Hey, it's a big deal when they keep you back for two years.

 

[SchwinnParamount]

Just got a new button for mine, should make it easier to find the shutter release for my fatty I mean man sized fingers.
View attachment 271682

Someone stole your leica's viewfinder

 

[awty]

Someone stole your leica's viewfinder

Its on layby.
Pretty much everything is in view in front of a 15mm lens.

 

[SchwinnParamount]

I totally mostly fixed the M6 myself. After finally getting the set screw out (took a tiny tiny flathead from Lowes), I got the bent up rewind knob off so now I can load and advance film. I put a new knob on but there is no way in hell I can get the micro-tiny set screw in. This new set screw is an actual Philips head screw and I don't have a screw driver to fit. But the real problem is that my regular human male fingers cannot possibly manipulate the thing into the micro-tiny hole it goes in, let alone screw it in. I'm gunna have to find a special tool whose business end is too small for my 60 year old eyebones to see.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

... my regular human male fingers cannot possibly manipulate the thing into the micro-tiny hole it goes in, let alone screw it in.

Sometimes a slightly larger screw driver will grip the screw allowing you to guide it into the hole. A wee bit of well chewed gum on the head of the screw/blade of the driver can help grip the screw. Magnetizing the driver blade can let it hold the screw. And don't forget to work on a large fluffy white towel - finding an itty-bitty grub screw that fell of the edge of the table is a pretty hopeless task -- but sometimes a good magnet can find it..

 

[SchwinnParamount]

Sometimes a slightly larger screw driver will grip the screw allowing you to guide it into the hole. A wee bit of well chewed gum on the head of the screw/blade of the driver can help grip the screw. Magnetizing the driver blade can let it hold the screw. And don't forget to work on a large fluffy white towel - finding an itty-bitty grub screw that fell of the edge of the table is a pretty hopeless task -- but sometimes a good magnet can find it..

Excellent tip!!!!!!!! Thank you Nicholas.

 

[awty]

Ha Im not the only one to have bent up the rewind knob. Did it on the first trip out. It was going to cost me about $200aud to get a second hand one, so I made my own.
I think on mine the grub screw was a flat blade, wasnt too hard, even with my shacky Don Knotts hands and sausage finger's. If you want hard try soldering the tiny wires in a phono cartridge on to the connection post without melting anything.

 

[SchwinnParamount]

Ha Im not the only one to have bent up the rewind knob. Did it on the first trip out. It was going to cost me about $200aud to get a second hand one, so I made my own.
I think on mine the grub screw was a flat blade, wasnt too hard, even with my shacky Don Knotts hands and sausage finger's. If you want hard try soldering the tiny wires in a phono cartridge on to the connection post without melting anything.

I'd never solder those wires. The gold posts make a pretty tight connection (at least on my Dynavector 10x5 and the AT 750mlh) but I get yer point.

 

[DF]

 

[tokam]

Another tip for holding tiny screws onto the screw driver while positioning the screw is to dab the end of the screwdriver into a UHU type glue stick used for glueing paper. Just a tiny dab will hold the screw. Works very well for Philips head screws.

 

[Sirius Glass]

There are screw drivers with grippers that hold the edges until the grippers are released.

 

[Huss]

Hang around Leica crowd for a while and you soon discover that there are some who just wear it as jewelry, a whole bunch who just obsess about meaningless minutia (seemingly completely oblivious to anything related to actual photography) and there are a tiny few who actually use the Leica to make photos.

And some are all three....