Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] Re:m4-2 half frame - Finder Masks
From: frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)
Date: Sat Sep 25 19:20:16 2004

My M4P 1/2 frame has a 18x24 film gate machined in the
shutter crate, not a masked standard aperture,
vertical finder masks as you would expect, a 72 frame
counter and appropriate wind on.

 --- Dennis Painter <dennis@hale-pohaku.com> wrote: >
Just curious about what you see through the finder
> on the M version. They would at
> least have to make special finder masks. Is that
> hard?
> 
> Agree that on items like this it is buyer beware and
> forget about it!
> 
> Summicron1@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > like the robot said to will robinson -- "Danger
> Danger"
> >
> > no official half frames were made that any book
> speaks of. It is amazingly
> > easy to make one, however -- coupla gears, new
> frame counter dial, mask and   ur
> > there. Russians make them all the time.
> 
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In reply to: Message from dennis at hale-pohaku.com (Dennis Painter) ([Leica] Re:m4-2 half frame - Finder Masks)