Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/27
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If you're using an SLR with a removable focussing screen, the solution
is simple. Buy a new screen, and mark the lines on the ground surface
using a ruler and a marker of some sort. Install screen and shoot.
I did this a lot of years ago to a Hasselblad screen to put on the
vertical and horizontal 8X10 crop marks for shooting weddings. IIRC
I used a ballpoint pen - the ball both scribed the groundglass and
deposited some ink in the mark for visibility.
If you're using an RF, the problem may be more difficult. What about
a bit of black tape over each end of a regular accessory finder?
Paul Chefurka
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Subject: [Leica] Square viewfinders?
Author: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > at internet
Date: 10/26/98 7:19 PM
I wonder if such a thing exists- I'd like an accessory viewfinder to use on
35mm bodies that gives the field of view for a 35mm or 50mm lens but with
the ends chopped off so that it shows a square frame, ie it would show what
I would get if I cropped the negative to make a square print. I can get it
almost right by just looking through a rectangular viewfinder and imagining
the square format, but it isn't easy and it isn't accurate. Does anyone
know of such a viewfinder?
Joe Berenbaum