Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/28

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Subject: [Leica] Technical Problem with CV 21 finder
From: photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest)
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 18:51:48 -0400
References: <89629446bb267153dd637d73e230e04b@mail.gmail.com> <CA06F190.F61C%mark@rabinergroup.com>

The foot on my plastic 21mm Leica finder has broken twice. This latest
time I used JB Weld to fix it. I don't expect it will be breaking at
the original fracture anymore.

Phil Forrest



On Sat, 28 May 2011 18:38:08 -0400
Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> When it comes to cool old cheap things you can get very usable for
> your camera finders are at the top of my list. They can say Canon or
> Nikon or something Russians on them or Voigtl?nder and be all metal
> and quite compact. They can look way different when you look though
> them than another one does and I'm not talking about loss of accuracy
> I'm talking magnification.  So maybe its best to get them in person
> instead of off the internet. And there are the ones which you can
> dial in different lenses. Which is the  21mm one I got when I got my
> 21. It was the 21-28 multifinder a mixed bag decidedly. That was 2001
> which was the year Leica stopped making them. But in 2007 I just a
> Leica one I must have run into some serious money as the used cost
> for them then was not low. Problem being it looks just like the one I
> had for my 24 and I'd confuse them. Big money and not even made by
> Leica and the plastic I hear would break. Or you'd loose them. But I
> kind of like the looks of them.
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
> --------------------
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
> 
> > From: Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 23:27:21 -0400
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: [Leica] Technical Problem with CV 21 finder
> > 
> > My trusty plastic CV 21mm finder is no longer quite so trusty.  The
> > right side of the plastic accessory shoe foot broke off, and the
> > brightlines within the finder are now quite cockeyed (to the tune
> > of about 45 degrees off).  Is there a relatively easy fix for these
> > problems, or should I start shopping for a new finder?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jim Shulman
> > 
> > Wynnewood, PA
> > 
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In reply to: Message from jshulman at judgecrater.com (Jim Shulman) ([Leica] Technical Problem with CV 21 finder)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Technical Problem with CV 21 finder)