Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Alpex finder?
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:54:59 -0500
References: <200102121641.IAA05727@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

At 06:42 PM 2/12/2001 -0500, Douglas Cooper wrote:
>I've just come into possession of a fine Alpex zoom finder, thanks to
>Michael Berube on the list.  Optically superb -- brighter than the Russian
>turret thing, and ergonomically superior.  The only thing I prefer about the
>Russian finder is that it centers the finder right over the lens on an M3 --
>this one skews things to the right. 

It might be intended to mount on a Contax/Nikon RF.  These have a different
optical axis than the LTM cameras, which is why the SPS viewfinder is
"flipped" from the Zeiss 436/70.

Marc

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