Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Isaac, There's a (fairly) simple, no, make that complex, way to find out. Empty the camera of film, open the back, remount the base and set on a tripod. Carefully insert a piece of tracing paper (a ground glass screen would be better) over the film plane, it may need lightly taping in place, but make sure it sits flat on the guide rails. Then open the shutter on B, preferably with a cable release that can keep it open. Now you can check the (back to front, laterally reversed) image on the tracing paper with the image you can see through the finder. Make sure the lens is at its widest aperture to give you the brightest screen and look to the corners and edges for reference marks, do they correspond, or are they way off? If they don't, can you twist the finder slightly until they do? Some finders have set screws on the mount between their shoe and the finder body, these could help you if you need to adjust the view/tilt. I did have a Kontur finder once, if I had it still I'd have been happy to test it myself for you. I do know that some non Leitz finders can be very dissapointing, I had a Russian 35mm finder once that missed off nearly half the picture it was that out of alignment (for a Leica), too bad they were my sister in law's wedding picture! Owch! Jem ============================ Isaac H Crawford wrote: > On a whim, I picked up a Voightlander"Kontur" view-finder. > How accurate will these be on my M6HM? > > Isaac