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I still love shooting with my M4-2, even though Sherry says this camera doesn't deserve the Leica name on it (ouch). But, there is one major design flaw that Leica overlooked, just like Sherry stated, and that's the synchro being made of plastic. I bought an M4-2 from Tamarkin earlier this year. It was working great until I bought those plastic plugs from DAG and stuck them in the terminals. A few days later I open my bag and one of the flash terminals was just sitting on the bottom. One of the terminal plugs must have caught on the side of my bag, and caused the plastic synchro block threads to crack. I emailed Sherry and she explained everything to me. I ended up returning the M4-2 and buying a new one from another store, and the replacement has had no problems and works great. I would not recommend putting those plastic terminal plugs in the back terminals of the M4-2. There's a company out there called Midnight Camera Repair that has a replacement synchro block for the M4-2 with brass threads that won't break. Could be a long term solution to this well known problem.


Nov 29, 2023 at 07:03 PM
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Re: Interview with Leica Repair Master Sherry Krauter


I still love shooting with my M4-2, even though Sherry says this camera doesn't deserve the Leica name on it (ouch). But, there is one major design flaw that Leica overlooked, just like Sherry stated, and that's the synchro being made of plastic. I bought an M4-2 from Tamarkin earlier this year. It was working great until I bought those plastic plugs from DAG and stuck them in the terminals. A few days later I open my bag and one of the flash terminals was just sitting on the bottom. One of the terminal plugs must have caught on the side of my bag, and caused the plastic synchro block threads to crack, and caused the terminal to fall out. I emailed Sherry and she explained everything to me. I ended up returning the M4-2 and buying a new one from another store, and the replacement has had no problems and works great. I would not recommend putting those plastic terminal plugs in the back terminals of the M4-2. There's a company out there called Midnight Camera Repair that has a replacement synchro block for the M4-2 with brass threads that won't break. Could be a long term solution to this well known problem.


Nov 29, 2023 at 07:01 PM
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Re: Interview with Leica Repair Master Sherry Krauter


I still love shooting with my M4-2, even though Sherry says this camera doesn't deserve the Leica name on it (ouch). But, there is one major design flaw that Leica overlooked, just like Sherry stated, and that's the synchro being made of plastic. I bought an M4-2 from Tamarkin earlier this year. It was working great until I bought those plastic plugs from DAG and stuck them in the terminals. A few days later I open my bag and one of the flash terminals was just sitting on the bottom. One of the terminal plugs must have caught on the side of my bag, and caused the plastic synchro block threads to crack, cause the terminal to fall out. I emailed Sherry and she explained everything to me. I ended up returning the M4-2 and buying a new one from another store, and the replacement has had no problems and works great. I would not recommend putting those plastic terminal plugs in the back terminals of the M4-2. There's a company out there called Midnight Camera Repair that has a replacement synchro block for the M4-2 with brass threads that won't break. Could be a long term solution to this well known problem.


Nov 29, 2023 at 04:10 PM





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