Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/21
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> Oh, about the IIIf's viewfinder: any idea what focal length its field
> of view corresponds to? Because pictures with a 50mm lens end up with
> some stuff cut off at the edges, but the VF doesn't seem as wide as a
> 35mm. Maybe kind of 40-45mm flavored? Is that one of the reasons
> people are so fond of shoe-mounted viewfinders in that era?
IIIf vf covers and is made for 50mm. Problems you talk about may be
because of some inaccuracies in IIIf vf making? Dunno. But yes,
the best 50mm finder would be Brightline Leitz 50mm Finder
- - very bright and easy to use. But, because of parallax, you
will still have a framing errors... Just forget it and shoot
with IIIf's vf ...
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