finder feedback sought

Come-on Joe,
I KNOW you wanna try one, go ahead.

Pete Smith is selling one with the box!
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They are kinda big but work pretty good.

Kiu
 
I've used this type of finder (Nicca, Tewe) on FSU cameras. Framing can be somewhat dicey. The location of the shoe that receives the finder is diagonally offset from the horizontal axis of the lens, so you won't be looking at quite the same view necessarily that the lens is. The higher the finder sits up off the top deck, and the longer the lens, the more pronounced this effect will be.

Both of the aforementioned finders have parallax correction gizmos that I personally find to be fiddly, inaccurate, and often overlooked (in my case) in the field. They provide yet another thing to adjust, if you're into that.

Of course, one can always make a difficult situation worse. I took my Tewe apart to clean it and forget to notice which way the curved side of the lenses faced, and when I finally did get eveything jiggered around right, the framing mask would inevitably slip out of place whilst tightening everything up. :bang:

So I advocate either the turret type finders, which by the way feature horizontal and vertical reference lines, or a nice bright dedicated viewfinder paired with your lens.

Cheers!
Peter
 
I've used this type of finder (Nicca, Tewe) on FSU cameras. Framing can be somewhat dicey...

The Nikon finder frames pretty darn close when mounted on a Nikon camera, you put a Soviet finder on a Japenese camera?!! What did you expect?

I think the idea of a zoom finder on a RD-1 is neat, mount a 21mm and use the finder @ 35 --mount a 25mm and set the finder right past 35 -- mount a 50mm and use the finder @ 73

Hey Joe, does your finder have the Leica settings?

Kiu
 
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