Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Didn't the company who made the integral rangefinder for the Graphic line originally make an accy. for the company which predated the integral reangefinder? I can't remember the name, but it Kal something or other and I have a Hugo Meyer which is > 4.5" long which I use for my Vito and Ikonta. It came with an odd sized shoe, but I removed it and adapted a piece so it would fit in the accy shoe. At 03:42 PM 11/21/96 +0000, you wrote: >I asked this just before the Arthur Wouk Deluge demolished the list; >so I'm not surprised it didn't get an answer - I suppose most readers >just binned every message for a few days without reading it. > >This was prompted by Marc Small's comment that practically nobody can >scale focus a 200mm lens, hence Visoflexes. It occurred to me that an >add-on rangefinder ought to be lighter, but that I'd never seen one >the right size for this job; the kind you get in camera shop junk bins >are designed for relatively short lenses, and are usually too dark to >be usable anyway. The next step up seems to be humungous ex-army things >used for aiming howitzers, with a baseline measured in feet. > >Is there anything in between? - bright enough to see through, base wide >enough for a 200-400mm lens, small enough to go in your pocket? > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >jack@purr.demon.co.uk - Jack Campin, 2 Haddington Place, Edinburgh EH7 4AE > > > Brian Levy, J.D. Agincourt Ont. dlevy@worldy.com