Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 24mm viewfinder SHOE
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:03:24 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks for sharing your idea. 
Did you attach the velcro on the hot shoe of your
Leica and how do you align it with the viewfinder. I
would imagine the viewfinder attached with velcro on
the camera will get misaligned fairly easily when one
inadvertently knocks it around.


- --- Christer Almqvist <chris@almqvist.net> wrote:
> Hi Henry
> 
> Good you asked before you glued. I used the wrong
> glue, the foot 
> never attached properly and it was then impossible
> to fix it with the 
> right glue. I asked the same question as you (after
> I had tried the 
> wrong glue) and got several replies. Look in the
> archives. This was 
> perhaps two months ago
> 
> As I could not glue the foot back, I the cut off the
> remains of the 
> shoe and put some good quality Velcro on the finder
> and on both my M6 
> bodies. If you really want to make sure you got the
> finder finder 
> lined up correctly, then make a comparison with what
> you see in the 
> M6 built in viewfinder. Velcro has several
> advantages: it is much 
> quicker to move the finder from one body to another,
> and my Leica bag 
> has some Velcro inside it anyway, so I attach the
> finder there when 
> it is not in use. That makes it much more accessible
> than putting it 
> back in its little leather purse, and I feel it is
> much safer 
> attached like that than in the little purse that I
> always feared I 
> would lose.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> >On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 06:57 AM, Henry
> Ting wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>The shoe of my dedicated 24mm viewfinder broke
> off.
> >>Since its made of plastic (or some high-tensile
> >>composite), can I use "super glue" for a fix ?
> 
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