Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]About the variable frame finders from Leitz. The Imaract (spelling?) is the one which renders the view correctly. It was, I believe, the latest one. But now I might cause a run on the older version. And, as I've already bought one, so I don't care. In at least two different books I've read Henri Cartier-Bresson's description of the older Vidom finder, the one which not only reads left to right and right to left, but also, by twisting the eye-piece, the image turns upside down. Cartier-Bresson mentions this, as he's also a painter and states that he uses the Vidom to view his compositions upside-down as do many painters. This eliminates the distraction of subject and composition becomes foremost. I got mine.... Ed