Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Square viewfinders?
From: "Joe Stephenson" <joeleica@email.msn.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:10:05 -0700

Yes, Joe,
The viewfinder you refer to is called a Hasselblad.
Joe Stephenson
- -----Original Message-----
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 4:58 PM
Subject: [Leica] Square viewfinders?


>I wonder if such a thing exists- I'd like an accessory viewfinder to use on
>35mm bodies that gives the field of view for a 35mm or 50mm lens but with
>the ends chopped off so that it shows a square frame, ie it would show what
>I would get if I cropped the negative to make a square print. I can get it
>almost right by just looking through a rectangular viewfinder and imagining
>the square format, but it isn't easy and it isn't accurate. Does anyone
>know of such a viewfinder?
>
>Joe Berenbaum