Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Waist level finders
From: "Claes Bjerner" <claes.bjerner@pi.se>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 20:58:35 +0100

>>Has anyone ever encountered any kind of aftermarket shoe-mounted waist level
>>viewfinder for sale?
>>I know about  Leitz Wetzlar's AUFSU, AYOOC and AHOOT of the 1930s-1940s
>>but these
>>have become serious collector's items, very pricey even in shabby shape.
>>Yet the idea
>>seems so useful for unobtrusive shots.
>>Does anybody make something similar at an reasonable price, for normal or wide
>>lenses? Russian? Japanese? Ukrainian? I don't care if it's plastic. I
>>cannot keep
>>borrowing my wife's Yashica T4 Super when going stealthy!
>>
>>Emanuel Lowi
>>Montreal

For portrait shootings with a tripod Iīm using an old Canon Angle Finder B.
Itīs not shoe mounted but fits snugly around the M viewfinder ring.
Excellent help where the focusing really is crusial! But for unobtrusive
street shootings itīs utterly useless! Sorry! ;-)

Claes