Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica vs. Contax wars
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:05:10 -0800

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
I'm pretty sure the one in the Feininger was a 50.
Mark Rabiner