Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Stanislaw wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > Maybe you will try out Russian universal viewfinder? > > No joke here, but, being a poor one, I try to advocate a cost-effective > > approach (using bicycle, not car, using newspapers, not...) > > This is a little beast. Has framelines for 28, 35, 50, 85, 135mm, > > very good and sturdy construction, has manual parallax correction, > > accurate and easily visible framelines, kinda diopter correction... > > About 50$ here. > > St. > > I agree with you, this is would have to be one of the best value for > money multiple viewfinder there is. It is very well made and easy to use. I > specially like the the fine cross hair when looking through it. > I bought mine about 10 years ago. It came in a round sturdy bakelite box. > It is better to use than the Zeiss-Ikon model. (except that this > incorporates 21mm) > The mirror seems to fade in the Zeiss model. It also costs about 10 times > the price of the > russian model. > > Regards, Horst Schmidt