robertdfeinman
Robert Feinman
I upgraded my Jupiter 50mm to the Nokton and the issue of the lens blocking the corner of the viewfinder has become more noticeable. The fact that this lens is silver and the older one black doesn't help either.
Now the basic camera design is about 80 years old so it seems that sometime during that period someone should have come up with a better solution.
I understand the desire to keep the viewfinder as close to the lens as possible to minimize parallax, but other cameras have found solutions. The Speed Graphic has the finder on the top of the camera and has a distance compensation mask to provide some adjustment. Of course most people operated the camera at greater distances so the parallax wasn't that important.
The twin lens cameras like the Rollei all have some sort of parallax compensation, including the use of wedges to tilt the field of view down for close ups.
The market is now so small that I don't expect to see any creative solutions, but it just seems odd that there has been so little in the way of experimentation over the decades.
Now the basic camera design is about 80 years old so it seems that sometime during that period someone should have come up with a better solution.
I understand the desire to keep the viewfinder as close to the lens as possible to minimize parallax, but other cameras have found solutions. The Speed Graphic has the finder on the top of the camera and has a distance compensation mask to provide some adjustment. Of course most people operated the camera at greater distances so the parallax wasn't that important.
The twin lens cameras like the Rollei all have some sort of parallax compensation, including the use of wedges to tilt the field of view down for close ups.
The market is now so small that I don't expect to see any creative solutions, but it just seems odd that there has been so little in the way of experimentation over the decades.
