hoot
green behind the ears
Hey,
does anyone know of the existence of external (hot shoe) viewfinders with life-size magnification, for shooting with both eyes open? I'm especially interested in such viewfinders for wide lenses (28mm or wider). Any information would be of help. Thanks!
does anyone know of the existence of external (hot shoe) viewfinders with life-size magnification, for shooting with both eyes open? I'm especially interested in such viewfinders for wide lenses (28mm or wider). Any information would be of help. Thanks!
laptoprob
back to basics
I only know of them in 50 and 75 mm. Not in wide angle. That is the reason the M3 1:1 viewfinder is limited to 50mm framelines.
It would be interesting though!
It would be interesting though!
tom_f77
Tom Fenwick
Are you aware of the Ikodot finder?
http://www.ikodot.com/takealook.html
I think this might be as close as you'll get to a 1:1 wide-angle finder. I don't have one, but I always kind of liked the idea...
Tom
http://www.ikodot.com/takealook.html
I think this might be as close as you'll get to a 1:1 wide-angle finder. I don't have one, but I always kind of liked the idea...
Tom
The Canon P and Nikon S3 (and S4) have 1x viewfinders for 35mm Lens FOV. The Leica M3 has a 0.92x finder, but goes to 50mm FOV with auto-parallax correction. I do not know of any 1x optical 28mm finders, either external or built-in. That is a wide FOV, and the "sports sight" as suggested above is a good solution.
aizan
Veteran
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Roman
Guest
Wow, that Topcon finder is huge...
Ronnie, as you can see, size is the reason why 1:1 finders for wide-angles are not the most common items in the world - once you get wider that 28mm, those finders would get bigger than quite a few cameras...
Roman
Ronnie, as you can see, size is the reason why 1:1 finders for wide-angles are not the most common items in the world - once you get wider that 28mm, those finders would get bigger than quite a few cameras...
Roman
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hoot
green behind the ears
tom_f77 said:
Whoa! This is just what I need. $99 is pretty steep for a piece of wire, though... has anyone got one for sale?
wyk_penguin
Well-known
probably you could make one yourself. The idea is to put a 24X36mm wire frame 50 mm from your eyes to get a 50mm lens' field of view.
jlw
Rangefinder camera pedant
tom_f77 said:
Cool! And when you're not using it as a viewfinder, you probably can convince people it's the antenna for your camera's WiFi interface...
tom_f77
Tom Fenwick
hoot said:
It does seem a lot, but I suppose it does have totally distortion free optics...
I like that Ikodot. Thanks for the link.
The original "sports finders" for 35mm cameras are rare and expensive. $99 is cheap compared to what they go for. I do not know if the Retina sports finder covers 28mm, or any of the other "less-known" brands. If they do, they go for less than Leica or Nikon. But they usually fetch over $100.