Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Waist-level finders
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 17:59:27 -0500

At 04:26 PM 2/8/2000 -0800, Mark Langer wrote:
>Ken's suggestion that a DeMornay-Budd finder would make a good answer to
>the waist-level query that Emanuel posed would only really be a good
>solution if Emanuel were using a non-rangefinder Leica, such as the
>Standard.  The DeMornay-Budd, if memory serves, is really good for this,
>as it has a device that couples to the Elmar lens for focussing. 

Now, that never occurred to me, and I've owned a couple of these puppies
over the years.  A Standard, eh!  Yes, it would couple to the Elmar on a
Standard.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Incidentally, I just sold a couple of Kuhn Flexameters and a de Mornay-Budd
at prices quite a bit higher than have been suggested here.  

Marc

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