Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've got a Leica 50mm and a CV 35mm, both metal. I stay away from those with plastic feet. The Leica one is a little better of the two, but the CV is not bad, and much cheaper. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Technical Problem with CV 21 finder > When it comes to cool old cheap things you can get very usable for your > camera finders are at the top of my list. They can say Canon or Nikon or > something Russians on them or Voigtl?nder and be all metal and quite > compact. They can look way different when you look though them than > another > one does and I'm not talking about loss of accuracy I'm talking > magnification. So maybe its best to get them in person instead of off the > internet. And there are the ones which you can dial in different lenses. > Which is the 21mm one I got when I got my 21. It was the 21-28 > multifinder > a mixed bag decidedly. That was 2001 which was the year Leica stopped > making > them. But in 2007 I just a Leica one I must have run into some serious > money > as the used cost for them then was not low. Problem being it looks just > like > the one I had for my 24 and I'd confuse them. Big money and not even made > by > Leica and the plastic I hear would break. Or you'd loose them. But I kind > of > like the looks of them. > > > Mark > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 23:27:21 -0400 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: [Leica] Technical Problem with CV 21 finder >> >> My trusty plastic CV 21mm finder is no longer quite so trusty. The right >> side of the plastic accessory shoe foot broke off, and the brightlines >> within the finder are now quite cockeyed (to the tune of about 45 degrees >> off). Is there a relatively easy fix for these problems, or should I >> start >> shopping for a new finder? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jim Shulman >> >> Wynnewood, PA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >