Do you use accessory finders?

[mike rosenlof]

Usually with a Barnak, and always with the 75mm on the M5. I like the 75mm length a lot.

 

[Erik van Straten]

The most useful for me is the Leitz SBOOI. It offers a life-size super clear image and a brilliant frame for 50mm lenses. Can be used on any 24x36mm camera.

Erik.

 

[dugrant153]

I'm using a 28mm VF for when I mount my 28mm lens either of my Leica cameras (M6 or CL). However, I find it a bit difficult to time it right and get things in focus and frame things when everything is moving so fast and I have to shoot at F2 or F1.4...

But I try and practice to get used to it.

 

[dugrant153]

Also:

http://www.jonathandesmond.com/blog/2015/7/21/gear-review-darkosaric-35mm-viewfinder-accessory

 

[Out to Lunch]

Using the CV 15-35mm Zoomfinder which can be used with film rangefinders and with my Epsons -1.5 crop factor. It can also be used with digital rangefinders with a 1.3 crop factor.

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

I have a Russian turret finder I used with my M3 before I got the goggled Summarons. It took me a roll of film to realise it was pointing up slightly so the roofs of buildings got cropped and too much foreground came in.

However, it was a model of accuracy compared to my 45mm Bronica RF645 finder - it is hilariously misaligned. I've learned to leave a lot more empty space around the subject.

Apart from that, I do use the Voigtlander Heliar 15mm superwide finder which is pretty accurate.

 

[iphoenix]

With my Canon 25 LSM on a Barnack or M6; or my Nikon 135 on an S2.

 

[ckuwajima]

I know that my Super-Angulon will capture everything in front of me.
Probably, the result using or not using the external viewfinder would be the same, but I feel more comfortable with it..

 

[Papercut]

I use 35mm and 90mm finders with my IIIc. And occasionally the 35mm with my M4 and M6 if I'm shooting hyperfocal on the street -- it's easier to see the full frame with the external finder as I wear eyeglasses. I've used a 28mm finder on my Sony A7ii as well under similar circumstances.

 

[peterm1]

I actually love accessory finders so much and was so intrigued by them that at one stage I actually started a small collection of about a dozen of them. That was back when I was using Leica LTM and M film cameras regularly and I enjoyed both the idea of how they look on old rangefinder cameras and to a point how they functioned - to the extent that they provided a finder option for non standard lenses.

My particular favorites were the many variants of turret finders (which is a concept also often seen on older cine cameras) though I must admit that the best ones to use in practice were the brightline finders due to their wonderful clarity.

A few I still have which I no longer have much opportunity to use but enjoy fondling are depicted below. Sorry about the links - apparently I cannot directly post images to a poll thread at RFF and I am also sorry the images are on Photobucket which a decade ago went from being an acceptable place to host images to being an abysmally bad site that is seemingly designed to do everything in its power to drive users and traffic away. (rant mode off)