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Subject: [Leica] IMG: My Latest RF Combination
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:53:42 -0600
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I'll have to look for a suitable filter material.  I didn't realize that the 
ring could be unscrewed.  That might help me get a filter on the window 
above the lens, rather than where I am presently using it.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwm.edu>
To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: My Latest RF Combination


> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011  "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>
>>Hi Jim,
>
>>Thanks for looking.  Yes, that is a slip-on orange filter that gives more
>>contrast between the rangefinder images.  The first one I used was on my
>>IIIa when I purchased it in 1952.  This one was obtained from DAG.  They
>>work best when installed on the window above the lens, but, with the rear
>>flange on this lens, there's no room, so I get an orange field with a 
>>white
>>spot.
>
>>Jim Nichols
>>Tullahoma, TN USA
> ===================================================================================================
> I was cheap (and didn't want the filter to fall off), so I cut a circle 
> out of a magenta CC filter and installed it behind the knurled retaining 
> ring on my IIIf.
>
> Alan
>
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