Re: [Leica] viewfinder

[Feliciano di Giorgio <feli@d2.com>]

Thanks Don.

VIOOH's are cheap and plentyfull. By the way, how big is one of these
things?
About the size of an old silver dollar? Now, if I could only find a
SBOOI for
less than a small fortune I would be in business.


>Don Dory wrote: 
> Feli, you have it exactly right with the SBOOI, when your subject gets
> close, you use the dotted line as the top of the frame.  It seems imprecise
> but it really is not.  With all the finders with a truly variable parallax
> you spend as much time focusing, check the distance, set the finder, look,
> find the subject has wandered off.  The reality of shooting is most of your
> subjects with a given lens will be about the same distance away so set the
> finder for that distance and just go with it.
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