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I have one of these Seagull Angle Finders, and they are remarkable value and work very well, and there's a bonus the instructions are hilarious, here is a quote;-

Maintainance with maintain

* This product is a precise and optical instrument, pleasing watch for to defend the tide dust palliative, Doing not want to point to get in touch with the optical glass by hand, do not fall off to fall or hits.

* In case that the immodesty makes dirty the optical glass, please use first to blow , the breeze brushes use the dust clearance, then the soft and clean cloth wipes ligntly, if still not clean, can use the lens pure try the paper stained with a little amount lens the pure trying the liquid to wipe lightly. Besides pure try the liquid excluding, the other do not use all.

* The outward apperance pleases use the soft and clean cloth to wipe lightly, do not use the organism melting agent cleaning absolutely.

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I like the bit about immodesty making your optical glass dirty.

Mind you their English is a lot better than my Cantonese.

My only gripe with them is that there is no way to lock the diopter setting which means you have to adjust it every time you use it.

Cheers Chris

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The Gold ones are so "Passe". In any case, they are based on the MkI model not the MkII..

More on the gold one here: http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/pentaxlx/Pentax_LX_Gold/...

Kim

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I don't know what the situation's like in Australia but 'round here taking that out in the street would be like carrying a large placard saying "rob me"