Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 35mm finder
From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:17:02 -0800
References: <5b.22c78db7.299996dc@aol.com>

How right you are. Thanks for bringing it up. I'm so used to looking
through a TLR or SLR roll film cameras, never mind a view camera, that I
didn't think about that possibility..
Considering how cheap the finder was, I'm thinking of cutting out the
plastic front for a more 28 like feel.
Slobodan Dimitrov


P2CON@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Slobodan writes:
> << I have a 35mm Soviet era finder. It has the plastic front outer ring
>  covering the front element on the bakelite body. I compared the view
>  with a 28mm lens on an SLR. It seems that it's fairly close to the 28mm.
>  Has anyone else noticed that? Do they have such a wide tolerance that it
>  could be close to a 40mm in another finder?
>  Slobodan Dimitrov >>
> 
> I think a comparison like that depends on the coverage of the SLR viewfinder.
>  My 35mm Soviet era finder compares quite favorably with a Olympus OM-1 with
> 35mm lens, (97% vf coverage) and a Canon AE-1 with 35mm lens, (96% horiz. vf
> coverage).
> 
> Some SLR's give you !00%, but most are much lower, even into the low 90's or
> high 80's.  Your SLR with 28mm lens may be giving you a 35mm view thru the
> finder.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul Connet
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