[Leica] OT: 50 Summicron-R 2 Cam conversion for R8

[gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton)]

Sounds about right, K'mann is for sure less expensive than NJ.
And, legendary repairman, Gerry Smith still is part of the team.

> From: spencer at aotera.org
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:45:12 -0500
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: 50 Summicron-R 2 Cam conversion for R8
> 
> At one point Kindermann was handling the repairs of all the older Leica's 
> for Leica NJ as they had all the parts. If that is still the case, having 
> Kindermann handle the conversion directly would be cheaper. Probably worth 
> getting a quote from them regardless.
> 
> I think I paid about $500-$600 about a decade ago to convert 3 lens to 
> 3-cam, have 2 broken SL evaluated and have all the lens TLC'ed.
>  
> Regards,
> Spencer
> 
> On Dec 20, 2011, at 20:08, Stasys Petravicius wrote:
> 
> > Jim- I had a 135 F2.8 older lens (SL?) converted by Leica NJ years ago- 
> > if I recall it cost about $375. Expensive. Stasys
> 
> 
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