Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeremy Kime wrote: > > I found a delightful bright frame viewfinder yesterday which provides a > wonderfully large field of view with terrific ease of viewing, the rear > eyepiece is 22mm across! > There's 1:1 viewing for 35mm and room outside of that, it also shows 50mm, > 85 and 135 f.o.v.s. > I've a strong suspician that this is the finder mounted on top of the Leica > in the Andreas Feininger picture of the photographer but try as I did, last > night, to locate that picture I couldn't. Can anyone give me a reference for > it, preferably in a Leica book (of which I've several). > It's made by W. Will (of Wetzlar) who went on to make lots of projector > lenses. > > Jem > > ---------- > > From: john[SMTP:bosjohn@mediaone.net] > > > > > > Wow, I can barely see the 35mm frame line and I have to work to do that. > > I would trade a little camera height to have a bigger > > viewfinder so I could see all the frame. > > > > Bosjohn > > I think the one in the photograph in question is a fifty mm bright line finder, but I am not sure, I have had several of these over time and they are fantastic. Now the sell for big bucks. The first on I had was on a lllg I had when I was sixteen. Go figure. Trouble is, I would rather not have to move my eye from finder to finder if I could get around it. John OOOPs, I mean Bosjohn