Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/06

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Subject: [Leica] IIIg diopter adjustment
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:19:38 +1000
References: <daaeb97e0907060806g2d38b772we1f459d539262794@mail.gmail.com> <4A5229A1.1040101@gmx.de> <daaeb97e0907061117q10a9127bqd56fc5f300a8bb2c@mail.gmail.com> <3cad89990907061946i2c40fd6fv82de10726acce22@mail.gmail.com>

Yes Jayanand! Some 50 years ago Leica conspired to rip you off ;-) Try
looking through the LTM camera small separate peep hole for focus (with the
dioptre lever you have to manually move everytime the distance changes too)
then through the magnificent combined viewfinder and rangefinder on the
M3.


2009/7/7 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>

> Another accessory to sell for US$200 (-: !!
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:47 PM, James Laird<digiratidoc at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > Makes you wonder why they left it off the M series.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Douglas Sharp<douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
> wrote:
> >> Hi Jim,
> >>
> >> there's a little lever under the rewind knob to adjust the diopter
> setting,
> >> on my IIIg it's a little loose and easily knocked of setting.
> >> I think the range must be about -2 to +2
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Douglas
> >>
> >> James Laird wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I read somewhere the IIIg viewfinder has built-in diopter adjustment.
> >>> Is this true?
> >>>
> >>> Jim
> >>>
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> >>
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-- 
Cheers
Geoff
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Replies: Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] IIIg diopter adjustment)
In reply to: Message from digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird) ([Leica] IIIg diopter adjustment)
Message from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] IIIg diopter adjustment)
Message from digiratidoc at gmail.com (James Laird) ([Leica] IIIg diopter adjustment)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] IIIg diopter adjustment)