Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>wrote; >All, >travelling in France. I knocked my M3 off my bedside table and it fell >on to a floor of "tomette" tiles, landing square on its top plate. >Result is that I can only see the centre focussing rectangle and the >framelines.I presume that this means that I have somehow managed to >shake the viewfinder loose in some way. ============================================================================================================ My understanding is that this is terminal for the VF. The cement between the prism layers goes opaque in its old age when subjected to shock. I think the only solution is a transplanted assembly from a donor M3. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt