Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Christ quit complaining you bunch of small minded photographed wussies! It's too big, it's too noisy, it's batteries suck even though I've never tried it, blah blah blah. Do what I did. I go to the local Lowe's and get some copper wiring(if you are in New Orleans you could just go to any trashed house and "borrow" some). I then fashion the wiring into 1" x 2" rectangles. Then I cut out some Walgreens construction board paper(the bright lime green stuff cause it's always on sale) marking 12mm,15,21,24,28,35,40,50,73,75,85,90,105,135,200mm, and placing the paper inside the 1"x2" copper viewer. The viewer of course is then cemented with Gorilla Glue on top of the Leica TTL hotshoe - sticks forever in about 30 seconds. Sometimes a nail gun works too, but I found you'd better do that on an MP not a TTL M6/M7! Shocking was the word I'll use. Trust me it works, and only for around $6.66. If you "found" the copper wiring in New Orleans, deduct $2.50. I'll post some photos later along with proper instructions for viewer use. After I finish downing a few bottles of Dixie beer, the only way to start whistlin' Dixie. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Keenan" Subject: [Leica] Re: New Leica varifinder is rather huge > >That's not what one can call compact: > >http://tinyurl.com/p3388 > > You ain't just whistlin' Dixie... > > My plans to buy one of the new Tri-Elmar lenses is now on indefinite hold. > > Buying a small camera, adding a relatively small, super-versatile lens, and > then have to put a small -- and pretty ugly -- house on top of the camera to > use the lens is difficult to accept. > > Dave.