Inversion attachment

[Laurent SAMINADAYAR <saminad@amoco.saclay.cea.fr>]

Hi!
Could you please tell us where you purchase this inversion attachment (and
also the price) ? I would be very interesting in getting one.
Marc Riboud says that HCB recommended him this attachment when he came to
Paris and begun photography (1953, I think). His famous picture of the
painter of the Eiffel Tower was taken using this tool. Actually, painters
use this trick very often (usually a mirror)  to evaluate composition.
Best regards.
Laurent.








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From: Kryv0man@aol.com
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:52:28 -0400
Subject: Re: M6 - Inversion attachment

I use the inversion attachment because it allows me to see the image just as
if it were on the back of a large format camera -- inverted and reversed.
 This is helpful to me in composition.  It's like carrying around a large
format camera on top of an M6.  It's the same concept as Leica uses for the
21mm lens.  The 21mm supplementary viewer sits on the hot shoe as well.  I
saw a photo of Henri Cartier-Bresson with one of these on his old Leica.  I
inquired with an antique Leica dealer in Washington DC and he had one in his
collection.  It has a dial on top where you dial in the focal length of the
lens.  When you view through it, it looks like what you might see through the
viewfinder of a Nikon -- except the image is all masked in black, and , of
course, the image is inverted and reversed.  HCB, like me, said that it
helped him focus on the geomerty of the image.  

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Laurent SAMINADAYAR
DSM/DRECAM/SPEC
Orme des Merisiers
CEA/Saclay
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E-Mail: saminad@amoco.saclay.cea.fr
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