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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica vs. Contax wars
From: john <bosjohn@mediaone.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 16:28:30 +0000

Jeremy Kime wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
I think the one in the photograph in question is a fifty mm bright line
finder, but I am not sure, I have had several of these over time and they are
fantastic. Now the sell for big bucks.  The first on I had was on a lllg I had
when I was sixteen. Go figure. Trouble is, I would rather not have to move my
eye from finder to finder if I could get around it.
John
OOOPs, I mean Bosjohn