acetonic
Member
I seem to have lost my eyepiece. Or maybe it's the viewfinder? I have an M6 Classic and, while wandering around in Tokyo, the stock eyepiece somehow came unscrewed and fell off. I had traveled quite a ways from my previous shot but I re-traced my steps anyway in the futile hope that I would see in the gutter or something. No luck. :bang:
My searches on the net have not helped me in my hunt for a replacement. Can anyone point me in the right direction for getting this part. I need to practice my zone focusing but I'd really like to use the rangefinder in my rangefinder again.
Thanks!
My searches on the net have not helped me in my hunt for a replacement. Can anyone point me in the right direction for getting this part. I need to practice my zone focusing but I'd really like to use the rangefinder in my rangefinder again.
Thanks!
cnphoto
Well-known
take a few photos of your camera showing where the missing piece(s) go and send them to DAG asking if he has a replacement part. i've done this before, Don got back to me in a timely fashion and I had the replacement part(s) quick enough.
RFluhver
Well-known
The bloke's in Tokyo. If there was one city in the world where you can just walk into a joint and pick up a Leica part like you would pick up milk from 7-Eleven, then this city is it. Question now is, what exactly is missing?
acetonic
Member
Well, I am no longer in Tokyo, unfortunately. After I lost the part, I went straight to Map Camera in Shinjuku for help. They didn't have the part or know of any place that I could find it in town. They did have a nice selection of almost every Leica rangefinder you could possibly want, but that wasn't in my vacation budget.
The part in question is the part you put your eye up to when you focus and frame the shot. It is a round lens that screws into the camera body and lets you see into the viewfinder. Without the part, it's all just a blur.