Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff Moore wrote: > After much 21-versus-24 agonizing I finally popped for a shiny new 24mm M > ASPH. > The top part of > the finder decided to leave the little hot-shoe foot behind, with a few > projecting plastic pins. Are they really always this fragile? > > Does anyone have a recommendation for the proper kind of glue to get it > patched back together? > > Goggles? Do I hear goggles? Who's TTAbrahams's chum, Mueller? Lessee... > 35 is to 24 as 50 is to 35? Are the goggles based on hostorical 35mm-on-50mm > goggles, or are they fabricated anew? > -Jeff <jbm@oven.com> ============================ Jeff, I believe the finders are that fragile, I have had my 21mm fider foot replaced with an aluminium one off another accessory, old clapped out M-meters are especially good as a source of (Leica) quality feet. Araldite was used on my conversion - hasn't broken yet. Reinhold Mueller is Tom's mechanical 'guru'. He uses goggles from the later 35mm M3 lenses, not new ones made up. These do affect the r/f so the proviso is that the focussing only works at infinity! To find out the focal length multiply the original by 0.7. E.g. 50 x 0.7 = 35 => 35 x 0.7 = 24.5, 'good enough for jazz' as one might say. For a large amount of money you could try to have the cam reground to suit the new goggles, this would be a very complex, demanding and precise task, I'm sure Reinhold could advise. He's at 150 Laird Drive, Suite 304, Toronto, Canada, M4G 3V7 Tel: 416 467 6992 Fax: 416 467 7447 best regards, Jem