Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/02

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica vs. Contax wars
From: Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:55:03 -0000

I found a delightful bright frame viewfinder yesterday which provides a
wonderfully large field of view with terrific ease of viewing, the rear
eyepiece is 22mm across!
There's 1:1 viewing for 35mm and room outside of that, it also shows 50mm,
85 and 135 f.o.v.s.
I've a strong suspician that this is the finder mounted on top of the Leica
in the Andreas Feininger picture of the photographer but try as I did, last
night, to locate that picture I couldn't. Can anyone give me a reference for
it, preferably in a Leica book (of which I've several).
It's made by W. Will (of Wetzlar) who went on to make lots of projector
lenses.

Jem
> ----------
> From: 	john[SMTP:bosjohn@mediaone.net]
> > > 
> Wow, I can barely see the 35mm frame line and I have to work to do that.
> I would trade a little camera height to have a bigger
> viewfinder so I could see all the frame.
> 
> Bosjohn
>