Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/09

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Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Leica] Which Viewfinder?]
From: "A.H.SCHMIDT" <horsts@primus.com.au>
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 22:57:36 +1000
References: <39E14CDC.B56F99B8@primus.com.au> <39E1BF55.CD358057@primus.com.au>

> 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