Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html