Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/14

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Subject: [Leica] finder for 200mm Telyt (SFTOO)
From: Doug Herr <Telyt@compuserve.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:45:47 -0500

Crispin wrote:

>>>
So, browsing around web sites for one of
these visoflex units in screwmount (which, looking about were
made but now are all dissapeared) i come upon the (gotta love early
Leica acronyms) SFTOO, which claims to be a direct finder for the 200mm
Telyt (which was the lens i was thining of getting my hands on).  So: Is
is a viewfinder, just for framing the picture, or is it a focusing
device, whereby adjusting it until one's subject is in focus, and then
transfering these settings to the lens, the correct focus setting can be
determined?
<<<

Bad news.  From what I recall (and if I'm wrong someone is certain to tell
me) it's not a rangefinder, just an aid for pointing the camera in the
right direction.

Doug Herr
Sacramento
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt