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Subject: [Leica] LEICA IIIF - I NEED SOME HELP/ RF contrast
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Wed Jun 6 17:58:41 2007
References: <2EA61280-3066-433D-9E66-1D28693464B5@mindspring.com> <727496.58293.qm@web55906.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Ken Ruth turned an unusable Leica IIIf into a very nice shooter. I do
think he replaced a mirror in there somewhere. When I bought the
camera, it supposedly had just been CLA'd. The CLA was so poor, I
assumed that the IIIf must be a crap camera.

On 6/6/07, H. Ball Arche <h_arche@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I thought, even though I've never
> used one. And at the bid price its showing, it would
> almost a better deal to got ahead and replace the
> mirror.
>
> BTW Ric, I've been watching the Harbor series and of
> course feeling homesick, especially the Swanquarter
> Mist one.
>
> --- Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > Isn't that over the wrong window in debay photo?
> >
> > Seems to me to work better of the right window
> > turning the center
> > spot orange. Works better for me anyway.
> >
> > ric
> >
> >
> > On Jun 6, 2007, at 8:12 PM, H. Ball Arche wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >> Anyone of you know if the rangefinder contrast
> > (for
> > >> focusing) could be
> > >> replaced?
> > >>
> > >> I think that in Europe I can obtain a good CLA by
> > >> Lutton, or Malcolm Taylor,
> > >> but previously I want to do my experiments...
> > >>
> > >> Thanks again,
> > >> Saludos desde Barcelona
> > >> Luis
> > >
> > > CRR Luton can rebuild your rangefinder, or replace
> > the
> > > mirror, which will fix the rangefinder contrast,
> > but
> > > cheaper than that the short term fix is to get one
> > of
> > > those little orange filters that clip on over the
> > > front rangefinder window:
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/23yoz2
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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-- 
Jeffery L. Smith
New Orleans, LA

Replies: Reply from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] LEICA IIIF - I NEED SOME HELP/ RF contrast)
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