My M6 can't see!

[acetonic]

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!

 

[cnphoto]

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]

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]

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?

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.