Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alf, I dont think it is possible to install the 21 viewfinder in the M2 or M4. At least not while retaining the rest of the frames at a reasonable size. I know of one M body ( an old Md body) that a friend of mine converted. He simply put the glass part of the 21 aux. viewfinder in the body, cut out the appropriate holes in the top cover and put it together. It looked neat and did work well as a non rangefindered 21 mm special Leica. I personally did not think it was worth the effort. Presumably there is a way of installing a sep. lens system in the finder so that you could flick in a " wide" field when you needed it ( a lens that would magnify the 28 field to 21 and that would be activated by the bayonet of the 21). It would be a tight fit though. The top part of the M cameras is getting really crowded. Tom A