Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information