Well, folks - I like to keep my promisses. So, here it is.

Although I'm very taken these days, I've decided to open a temporary sales window onto my goodies. Sorry, no Slides, no Hooks for the next time being. Nevertheless enjoy - and happy shooting!

-- Lutz Konermann (lutz@konermann.net), April 04, 2002

Answers

The links for your site aren't working correctly.

-- william carter (wmc@po.cwru.edu), April 04, 2002.

Well, according to Murphy's "your server is most likely to break down the very day you plan a web presentation"... :o(

I've put up a mirror site. So, once more: Here's the Scoop. Enjoy.

-- Lutz Konermann (lutz@konermann.net), April 05, 2002.

Speaking of "downsites"... below is a working address, too... ;o)

-- Lutz Konermann (lutzkonermann@compuserve.com), April 05, 2002.

Lutz, I'm not trying to be smartass, but what does the scoop improve upon? When you first mentioned this product in another thread, I thought it was going to be some sort of plastic cover that you could put on older M cameras' eyepiece so the metal wouldn't scratch your glasses. But looking at the photo of the Scoop, I'm trying to figure out what it does. Block out extraneaous light?

-- Richard (rvle@yahoo.com), April 05, 2002.

It blocks out extraneous light, yes, prevents glasses from scratching as it adds a millimeter or two in distance (which, with glasses, may of course leed to cropping of the viewfinder - we have to die one death, don't we? - but is of no importance for viewing without glasses) and gives a more ergonomically comfortable shape to the body, i.e. your brow may rest on top. Thus the 1.25x magnifier won't poke into your eyeball more than Oskar would have liked it...;o) Bests.

-- Lutz Konermann (lutzkonermann@compuserve.com), April 05, 2002.

Ahh... now I get it. Thanks, Lutz.

-- Richard (rvle@yahoo.com), April 05, 2002.

Lutz: Well done and I want to purchase the SCOOP. BUT... when I clicked on the e-mail order form, it states that you are not producing/shipping at this time. What gives??

-- Albert Knapp MD (albertknappmd@mac.com), April 06, 2002.

Lutz, good stuff! How is it attached to the camera?

-- Giles Poilu (giles@monpoilu.icom43.net), April 06, 2002.

The Scoop has a 16mm hole at its center and is held in place by the 17mm rubber rim of the viewfinder thread. To put it on you gently press the semi-rigid PET around that rim like the tyre of a bike - got the idea?

As for orders, I've provided the link of a temporary mirror site in my second post from above. Cheers.

-- Lutz Konermann (lutz@konermann.net), April 06, 2002.