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Subject: [Leica] WTB: Versalab alignment gauge
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Fri Jun 18 18:16:21 2004

Thanks Martin, nothing like divergent opinions. I have heard good 
things about the Versalab before, and one of them was that it was 
simpler, accurate enough and faster.

Cheers
On Friday, Jun 18, 2004, at 22:31 Australia/Melbourne, Martin Jangowski 
wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
>> Big mistake!!!!
>> Try these guys instead!!!
>> Great to work with these people. (a married couple)
>> Became a parallelist. Get a Zip/align. I'll send you a signet ring.
>> It's 100 times more accurate than those crude laser beams.
>> I counted.
>> http://www.zig-align.com/
>
> I tried both systems and settled with the Versalab. The mirror method 
> may
> inherently be more accurate, but the laser is faster and more then good
> enough. You can easily see the difference after pushing a piece of 
> normal
> paper under one edge of the easel, and that's enough sensitivity for my
> mother's son.
>
> Additionally, from time to time I make wall enlargements, and the laser
> beam spans several meter easily, if needed. The picture in the set of
> mirrors is _very_ small at this distance... and you can easily align a
> camera for a lens test with the Versalab, just fasten one of the glass
> mirrors over the front lens and put the laser in the middle of your 
> test
> chart.
>
> A good investment, I think.
>
> Gr??e aus Hohenlohe,
>
>       Martin Jangowski
>
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