Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ther have been a couple of posts recommending these things. I've got one (a 90mm) and *loathe* it. One more thing to forget; taking pictures with a screwmount camera has way too many separate steps already. What works MUCH better is the dotted line on the VIDOM 50mm auxiliary finder showing parallax error at close focus: you just interpolate mentally. I've had far fewer framing errors with this than with the 90mm. Did anybody ever make a 90mm finder with a simple brightline mark like on the 50mm? Ideally, a magnifying one with adequate eye relief? I'm amazed at just how bad most viewfinders are, given that Leitz's own VIDOM essentially solved the problem of producing a bright, accurate finder with a big sharp image and adequate eye relief for spectacle wearers well before WW2. Long after that patent ran out, manufacturers all over the world - Leitz included - were still selling dark, squinty pieces of crap. Are they so hard to make? Two elements and a bit of silvering? (One thing I have which has long been surplus to requirements: a V100H 35mm-135mm adjustable finder. Is there any second-hand market for these? I couldn't sell it locally). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- jack@purr.demon.co.uk - Jack Campin, 2 Haddington Place, Edinburgh EH7 4AE