Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@worldnet.att.net> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 07:35:33 -0800 Who is Tom Abrahmson and how do we contact him to get user information on his Leicavit? "Who is Tom Abrahamsson": I dunno exactly, but Tom Abrahamsson contributes to the LHSA journal "Viewfinder" occasionally; the magazine often has pictures of him at meetings and so on. He makes a Leicavit replacement, called the Rapidwinder. The first Leicavit for M cameras, as sold with the MP, and which could be fitted to the M2, is different from the Abrahamsson rapidwinder. The Rapidwinder fits the M4-2, M4-P and M6, apparently mating with the same machinery as the winder does. To use a Rapidwinder on an M2 or an M3, you need to have the body converted. Reinhold Mueller in Toronto does this, and I seem to remember hearing that the price for the conversion is about $600, but I don't know where I heard this. Maybe I dreamed it up. The price for the Rapidwinder itself is about $500. The address in the "Leica M Compendium" is: Tom B. Abrahamsson Industrial Designer, Photographer #203-1512 Yew Street Vancouver, BC Canada V6K 3E4