180 Vf?

[noimmunity]

Are there (have there been) any VFs with a 180mm FOV on 24x36 135mm equivalent? How do people shoot 135s on the M8?

 

[POINT OF VIEW]

180 vf

180 vf

Thats a good question. I just shoot and check the LCD. On page 102 of the manual it says, 90mm and above, there no frame lines. It than states quote, can only be "determined" very imprecisely. I like that word, imprecisely. I use the lens so little, unless I found a vf super cheap,
I would never invest in one. Bill

 

[Al Kaplan]

The 135mm f/2.8 Elmarit has the "goggles" on it to convert the frameline of the 90mm lens to the coverage of a 135. This should work on the M8 the same way. Years ago Komura made a LTM 200mm f/4.5 rangefinder coupled lens which came with a viewfinder. I think that at one time Accura made a zoom finder that covered from 35 to 200mm.

 

[eleskin]

I have the M8 and tje 135mm Elmarit with goggles and I can say the frame lines are accurate. I also have a Visoflex 2 and Visoflex 3 and I find this increases accuracy in framing as well. You just have to make sure you mask off the viewfinder to compensate for the M8's crop factor.

 

[noimmunity]

oops, I have a tele-elmar, not an elmarit... i like it for the fact that it has the same filter size (E46) as many of my other remaining lenses...

 

[Ben Z]

I saw in an issue of the LHSA Viewfinder someone showed a 180mm finder, I think it was a Zeiss. Basically just a tube with a mask. I haven't seen one on fleabay so I don't know how plentiful they are or how much they might cost.

There are 35-200 zoom finders from the screwmount age with a 180mm stop (I have one, a TEWE). By 180mm the frame is awfully tiny though, and the finder itself is rather large. I solved the issue accidentally for myself. I happened to have an old Canon 135mm shoe finder, and because it has rather short eye relief and I happen to wear glasses, the extent of what I'm able to see through it just happens to correspond almost exactly to 180mm at infinity. If you didn't wear glasses you could probably learn how far to keep your eye back from the eyepiece to get the 180mm framing. These finders are pretty easy to find and don't cost a lot.