Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] finder for 200mm Telyt (SFTOO)
From: "Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:29:06 -0800

I have a 200mm finder for my Telyt lens.   It is only a viewfinder.   I have
to set the distance without the benefit of a rangefinder unless, I use a
seperate rangefinder some of which fit on a camera accessory shoe.

The viewfinder is clear and easy to use.

Roland Smith

roland@dnai.com
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <crispinv@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 7:22 PM
Subject: [Leica] finder for 200mm Telyt (SFTOO)


>
> Ok, so i know nothing about  telephoto lenses for my leica IIIa-- the
> ones that are so long that they cant be rangefinder coupled because the
> rangefinder base isnt long enough to be accurate enough, and which, even
>
> if they were, still cover too wide a range to do macros.  The vague
> story i heard, and never really paid attention too, is that ya needed to
>
> stick some huge visoflex unit on the front that made your camera into a
> clunky SLR in order to focus correctly with lenses longer than 135
> (except for the Komura 200mm, which isn't sitting arround on dealers
> shelves anymore).  But I've been finding the 135mm lens a bit too short
> for some aplications.  So, browsing around web sites for one of
> these visoflex units in screwmount (which, looking about were
> made but now are all dissapeared) i come upon the (gotta love early
> Leica acronyms) SFTOO, which claims to be a direct finder for the 200mm
> Telyt (which was the lens i was thining of getting my hands on).  So: Is
>
> is a viewfinder, just for framing the picture, or is it a focusing
> device, whereby adjusting it until one's subject is in focus, and then
> transfering these settings to the lens, the correct focus setting can be
>
> determined?  Bascialy, I want to use a 200mm lens on my IIIa without
> sticking a huge extra bit on (like the visoflex system), while not
> having
> to totaly rely on scale focusing (a bad bad idea).  It doesnt hafta be
> perfect, just better than what i can do in my head.  Does the leitz
> direct finder fit the bill?
>
> Thanks,
> Crispin
>
>