Re: [Leica] 21 mm viewfinder - crazy !

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Of course, one does not HAVE to use a viewfinder when using the 21mm, right?

At 01:33 AM 3/31/98 -0500, TTAbrahams wrote:
>Alan, The cost of doing the conversion is approx. US$600 with the customer
>supplying the lens. I don't do the conversion myself, it requires collimators
>and more optical know-how than I have. The original concept came about when I
>lost the umpteens finder for my 21/3,4 and I sat down and tried to figure out
>a better solution. A good friend of mine is the former head of Leica Canada's
>Service department , Reinhold Mueller in Toronto, and I managed to convince
>him to do the first one for me, this has since been followed by another
21/3,4
>conversion, a 21/2,8 and last year a 21/2,8 Asph. It is rather obvious that I
>like it!
> You can reach Reinhold by phone, Canada (416)467-6992 or by fax (416)
>467-7447.
> The price is high, almost 2 finders, but the benefits far outweigh the cost.
>The parallax problem is solved, you dont have to move your eye from focus to
>frame and it really looks neat too! You get a slight light loss in the
finder,
>you add more glass and a slight loss is inevitable but not enough to worry
>about. On the M3 and M6HM you only get 35 and 28 viewing angles, but on
>M2/M4/M4-2/M4-P/M6 you get pretty close to the 21 (M6/M4P tends to cut it to
>22 mm angle due to an antireflection mask in the finder). My personal
>favourite is a M2 with the frame illumination window covered, this way you
>have no framelines, only the rangefinder patch and "What you see is what you
>get".
>Tom A
> 


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