Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I was looking at a Leitz viewfinder, I believe it was a VIDOM, in a camera >store yesterday. This finder had 35, 50, 90 and 135 settings. It had two >index marks by the 135 setting, when turned to 135, it could be turned by >hand to the next index mark, which gave a slightly smaller field of view, >probably about a 150mm. The guy in the store had never noticed it before, >and didn't know what it was meant to do, and he has a lot of experience. >Can anyone tell me about this setting? I will likely buy the finder as I >have a 135 Hektor arriving this week for my IId. >Thanks >Noel Charchuk Noel, the one notch small framing for the 135 on the VIDOME shows the decreased area covered when the lens is closely focused - barrel moves the lens away from the body and the image area progressively gets smaller. Jim James H. Barker (Jim) - jbarker@polarnet.com High Latitude Documentary / Ethnographic Photography Fairbanks, Alaska