[Leica] HELP!!!! - M3 disaster! Advice sought

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

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.
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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
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