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After years of M shooting (film and digital), I'm now the proud owner now of my first Barnack Leica, a nice IIIG. I'm wondering about whether the orange contrast filters work on the round rangefinder window(s)...I've been searching on the topic and there seemed to be debate as to whether the IIIG could hold them or not, etc.  In looking at it, the border of the rangefinder window protrudes very little, I'm wondering about the attachment.  Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Jon

 

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Hi Jon,

 

Ages ago I was having trouble with discerning the R/F from the finder images on my Barnacks and Canon rangefinder cameras. I picked up a pack of assorted Kodak gels from a garage sale and cut circles out of an orange one to press fit each R/F window.

 

Vast improvement in R/F clarity, looks good and cost next to nothing.

 

Hope this helps.

 

David

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I've read on the manual of my IIIf that the tiny orange filter has to be mounted on the left rangefinder window, in this way you will have the image with two different colours and easier to focus precisely due the major contrast between them.

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As far as I understand (and I own a IIIg, as well as a II + ORAKO filter), neither ORAKO nor OKARO filters fit the IIIg.  It would seem that Leica considered the IIIg's rangefinder good enough not to benefit from such a filter.  On other Barnack cameras the filters are normally mounted on the rangefinder window closer to the rewind knob.

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As far as I understand (and I own a IIIg, as well as a II + ORAKO filter), neither ORAKO nor OKARO filters fit the IIIg.  It would seem that Leica considered the IIIg's rangefinder good enough not to benefit from such a filter.  On other Barnack cameras the filters are normally mounted on the rangefinder window closer to the rewind knob.

Don't know if an OKARO works fine on the IIIg, but searching at "google" for 'OKARO and IIIg' gives perhaps some helpful hints.

 

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