Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/29

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Subject: Re: External viewfinder
From: "Roy C. Zartarian" <royzart@connix.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 07:07:51 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Gerard Captijn wrote:

> Astigmatism corrected lenses are not offered by Leica anymore but do exist.
> Just buy an empty screw-in eyepiece from Leica, take it to your local
> optician's shop and they will cut to size and fix the right lens into your
> eyepiece, which should solve the problem. Bon chance.

I tried that approach at three different places.  All looked at the
eyepiece frame and said that their equipment could not produce a lens that
small.

Maybe Richard could help us astigmatics out on this one.


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