Upcoming/Potential Products  -  as or July 10, 2008

Upcoming   special-order  products  depending  upon feasibility, demand & cost:

• Limited edition Softie for LHSA Louisville, KY meeting.

• Nikon Hood  35/1.8 

We are thinking about another run of 35/1.8 hoods - please confirm/ contact us so we can add you to our waiting list. The hoods are US$ 170/each + airmail + cc/paypal fee

• Nikon Hood  50/1.1

          click at

                      http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=719032#post719032

Rapidwinder for Nikon S3/SP pls see from Rangefinder forum thread of April 2008   http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57972     Originally Posted by abenner Not to hijack the thread, but Tom I'm curious if you've moved forward at all, or have any plans to, with production on your S3/SP winder? Perhaps even on an a la carte basis? It's such a wonderful product you can't leave the Nikon guys out!

Yes. Stephen and I are trying to gauge the market for one of these. I have looked at the cost of making it and some revised design feature (a slightly different lever and a different drive as well as an inside coverplate) and we have decided that a minimum of 50 has to be ordered to make it feasible. The buyer has to supply his/her own base-plate as the cost of making that is prohibitive. The good news is that a S2 back works on a S3/SP and those are more common. Unfortunately the S2/S4 would require major internal reworking to accept it.
Get in touch with Stephen regarding ordering one as I rather have him doing the "list" than me! He is also airborne at this very moment so he cant pass the buck back to me!
One thing is that these winders will be numbered 1 of 50,2 of 50 etc!
May is a busy month  for us, but I will start some of the final designs and discussion with my machinist friend and if we have enough orders, it is a go!

Below   picture    Tom's  2  Rapidwinders  for Nikon SP and S 3. -   He have made only 2  of them since  early May 2006  - one  of them is now  in Austria and the second one  "somewhere over the hills in Malibu" .

 

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  •  A Classic "Mr B-Softie"   - for design pls click at

                       http://flickr.com/photos/rapidwinder/490755432/in/set-72157600193787563/

• Softreleases (Classic or Mini)  engraved with  organization/company logo - if you would like to go ahead with one  pls e-mail us on this. FYI you will have to supply a pdf for logo and our engraver likes to work in a batch of 100 at the time.

         Tom's Motto Below

Tom Abrahamsson  in Beijing, September 2005

• Rapidgrip for Leica M8  -  long down the list   have received lots of e-mails from M8 shooters.

         Below picture of Tom with the first "mock-up" for the M8-Rapidgrip  includes space  for a spare SD-card in the base of the grip.