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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Square viewfinders?
From: Mark Walberg <Walberg@simmons.swmed.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:37:20 -0600
 
Joe, It would be really easy to scribe lines on your focusing screen to do
this.

>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