Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for help and advice, Tom. I had the fantasy, that you could just exchange the viewer glass, and still use the RF. Evidently I know much too less about the construction. Will look for some old, broken LTM or M bodies, and start beginners course in Leica pathology and surgery :) Best, Alf - ------------------------------------------------------------------ At 11:50 09.01.1998 EST, you wrote: >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 >