Experience with C/V 28/35 minifinder? (WTB, perhaps)

[hoot]

Anyone here have any experience with the Cosina Voigtländer 28/35 minifinder?

What do the 28 and 35 brightlines look like?

Do both brightline sets have lines for vertical parallax?

Is the eye relief atrocious, or merely bad? (FWIW, I don't wear glasses)

Anyone want to sell me one for really cheap?

 

[VinceC]

I'm not selling mine anytime soon, but I can heartily recommend it. Mine sits atop my Nikon S2.

Decent/good eye relief for a glasses-wearer, about the same as the camera's main viewfinder. Size of your nose is probably the limiiting factor here.

Image magnification is 0.5 (half life-size)

Both frames show verticle parallax lines. The whole viewfinder image, edge-to-edge, is about 25mm field of view.

Weird annoyance: it's too "square" -- it's not shaped like a frame of film. So it's very easy to see the top and bottom of the 28mm frameline, but I have to wiggle back and forth to see the left and right edge of the 28mm frameline.

 

[triplefinger]

very pleased with my 28/35

very pleased with my 28/35

I use it mainly on my IIIg and sometimes on the R3A, but usually just for 35mm, I don't own a 28, but I can see what Vince was talking about in respect to the shape. that being said, it's small, bright and worth it.

 

[pdx138]

I'll second (or third) what has alerady been said. Eye releif is not great on the 28 framlines, I have to search a little to see the sides. But it is crystal clear and bright and so unobtrusive on my iiig that it stays on all the time, even when I am using a 50. It feels like a natural part of the camera. Very cool and reccomended.

 

[J. Borger]

Good you do not wear glasses .... because that finder scratches glasses.
That;s the only minor point i can think of. And it has noticable barrel distortion which makes it sometimes difficult to keep lines straight. Otherwise a great little finder!

 

[hoot]

I'd like to buy this finder. Who will give me a bargain?