These incredibly useful accessories seem rarer than hen’s teeth and the bidding for one that turned up on ebay recently (unused and boxed) seems to indicate that there would be a healthy market if Voigtlander still manufactured them. Anyway, after a fair number of screen refreshes (and being late for an appontment as a result of the slavish need) I won the auction, hehe. It is now on its way via USPS from Monterey, California to Deptford, London. Or at least I think it is*
Pause for waiting-with-bated-breath-interlude…
What neither I nor the seller know is whether it is a type A, B or C shoe, and despite sending the seller an image of the three types, he failed to respond. I’m really really hoping it is the type A, made for Leicas. The B & C shoes were discontinued in early 1996, the A in may 1997. The mount height of the B & C shoes is 7 & 10mm respectively which will just be too weird on the IIf.
So here’s hoping, fingers crossed etc etc, otherwise there could be another auction with similarly vague knowledge of the ‘type’.
* The USPS ‘Click & Ship’ tracking says that it left San Fransisco Airport on 6th December and hasn’t been updated since:
Your item left the United States from ISC SAN FRANCISCO (USPS) at 12:38 PM on December 6, 2008. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.
So perhaps it is crashed deep in the Atlantic… or in the hands of our ever vigilant anti-terror forces at the borders of our free nation who are trying to work out exactly what it could be used for. After all, photographers are terrorists in the UK lets not forget. Bastards.
by skinnyvoice
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