Leica 28mm Bright-line Viewfinder

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vor 5 Minuten schrieb Willbur:

Philip - As with all my M-cameras (all film, 1969-99), on one body--my beloved black paint M2, the 28mm finder was semi-permanently attached or rather carefully pushed into the shoe using a carefully-cut piece of quality black Gaffer's tape affixed to the bottom of the shoe--not the finder. Putting tape on the base of the finder was difficult to squeeze in ther, as when you slid it onto the shoe it would bunch up. Use an Xacto knife to cut a nice neat piece of tape, corner-to-corner of the M-camera shoe. I don't use flash on M-cameras, so having the finder semi-permanently there is fine. If you use flash, then you'd have to put the tape onto the bottom of the finder, which you may have to try a few times to get a neat job. Also, you may need to wrap the finder base a bit to squeeze it into the shoe. Trimming excess tape can also be done, once you get it in there. My 28mm finder was virtually part of the M2 for decades. The key, I think, is getting a quality roll of black Gaffer's tape, about $20. The cheap stuff won't work.

Thx for this advice Willbur.

I see differences in the hot shoe: the ones in the analog cameras have a bigger base because the shoes have no golden pins to make  a connection to the electronic viewfinder.

The clamps inside the shoe on both sides are thinner in the M10 as they are in the analog cameras I have. They bend each time I slide the viewfinder in the shoe, so it is loose.

Thank you i will try with Gaffer tape...