Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand, That was an excellent set of photos of rural Indian life. On the titles in the Lug Gallery I noticed that you were trying to shoot from the hip on several shots. Quite some time ago a waist level finder was made for the Leica III series by Demorney Budd. I may not have the name spelled exactly right but I'm sure old timers remember it. Probably similar ones were made by other manufacturers. They were not too popular since real photographers shot waist level pics with a Rollei. But they did have the advantage that you could face in one direction and take pictures in another. I never owned one of these but I did rip a small waist level finder off a defunct folding camera, fitted a shoe to it and used it in the accessory mount of my old IIIc. It was small but it served the purpose. Sneaky. Larry Z - - - - - - Jayanand writes: Kodagu, or Coorg as it used to be known, is a verdant coffee growing area in South India at the tail end of the Western Ghats, a range of mountains that run parallel to and just off the west coast of India. My family had gone for a quick four day holiday early in May, and these are photographs from the trip.