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Just finished a CLA on a Leica M3 and a Nikon F... the difference was wild.
Everyone says the Leica is a watchmaker's camera, but after 3 hours, the Nikon's shutter curtain mechanism was just more straightforward to adjust. Has anyone else found certain 'simple' designs to be a real pain to work on?
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ivan2303d ago
Leica fans will tell you it's a precision instrument. Then you spend an afternoon trying to get a tiny spring to sit right with tweezers. The Nikon just lays out its whole plan for you like a simple map. Sometimes "over-engineered" is just a nice word for "annoying to fix.
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jessefoster3d ago
An entire afternoon on one spring?
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