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Voigtlander Vitessa L - Rangefinder
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 8:46 am    Post subject: Voigtlander Vitessa L - Rangefinder Reply with quote
Hi

I have a very nice Voigtlaender Vitessa L but rangefinder doesn't work.
When I look inside the viewfinder I see the adjsting square but when I turn the focusing knob, nothing moves at all in the view finder.

I opened the top to have a look. Mirror is in place on the prism.
But there's a swinging arm moving when I rotate the focusing knob, it has a rectangular metal frame which is empty.
Do you know whether it should contain a glass or not ?

Few photos :

#1 from the front


#2 back


#3 back


PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
From what I have gathered reading about rangefinder systems, you are missing the beam splitter, the half mirror I mean.

An example of repair

http://tunnel13.com/blog/leica-iiif-beamsplitter-replace/


I have a separate rangefinder whose beamsplitter has lost silvering, I think I can find one from the same source as explained in the linled blog.

Also

http://jelabs.blogspot.it/2012/06/replacing-beam-splitter-mirror-in.html


PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 9:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank you very much. Very Happy

I feel the swinging arm metal frame shouldn't be empty.
Should this beam splitter mirror be in this frame ?
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