I've never seen THAT before

[sparrow6224]

check out this franken-cameraski. It beats everything I've seen. And what's with the Voigtlander Carl Zeiss branded lens? Is this a photoshop trick or what?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/21mm-Viewfi...970&pid=100010&prg=1090&rk=2&sd=170964318255&

 

[jwicaksana]

It's probably just for fun, after all the seller's only listing the finder, right?

 

[sparrow6224]

It's a Russian object being sold from Israel. With that scenario I'm more inclined toward excess and insanity than fun. But what do I know?

 

[hteasley]

It's a weird one. I'd have said Zorki 4 for sure, but the windows in front are wrong. Still pretty sure it is one, so I guess the "Leica" top plate forced some inner surgery on the rf mechanism. And yeah, a CVZ lens...who knew?

Edit: Just noticed the text where mentions shooting with his Zorki, so ok, he's not trying to pull anything over on anyone, with the fake Leica. Is there a Zorki 4 with windows like that? I can't seem to find any googling around...

 

[sanmich]

The lens looks like it has been PSed.
I guess it's mostly to get more traffic by using some of the "good names" in description.

 

[V-12]

'Interesting' viewfinders, the frames are just masks, painted on to match the field of view.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

To me it looks like someone reworked a Zorki-4 top plate to include a separate Rangefinder from the viewfinder (possibly from a Zorki 3(m)).

Why someone would do that is a different question.

 

[enero]

Ha! I was actually looking at this listing the other day, didnt notice the camera 😀

 

[rhl-oregon]

Boriska is a good guy. I have one of his budget 21 VFs for my GRD so I can have an eyelevel option when I attach the superwide goggle. Perhaps he is also a frankenleicameister! But his ebay ethos is about providing inexpensive wide VFs for RF comrades.

 

[astro8]

Yes, I've bought a couple of things from him, never a problem.

 

[johannielscom]

Boriska is a good guy. I have one of his budget 21 VFs for my GRD so I can have an eyelevel option when I attach the superwide goggle. Perhaps he is also a frankenleicameister! But his ebay ethos is about providing inexpensive wide VFs for RF comrades.

+1 on that. I've seen this guy craft pretty nice viewfinders and sell them dirt-cheap for a while now and I'm confident this is just a gimmick to attract some viewers for the viewfinder auctions: mission accomplished! 😀😀

 

[ottluuk]

To me it looks like someone reworked a Zorki-4 top plate to include a separate Rangefinder from the viewfinder (possibly from a Zorki 3(m)).

Why someone would do that is a different question.

Someone reworked a Zorki-4 top plate in Photoshop using, among other things, an image of the "Leica" inscription of a push-on LTM or M lens cap from the 1950's... 🙄

 

[Penny Lane]

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to mention PhotoShop as the workshop where this thing was created...

Other PS mods include using VF/RF windows from, I'd guess, an M3, editing out the self timer lever & button and adding a frame line lever from an M2/3. On the lens, the original Voigtländer designations have been pasted over with Carl Zeiss Jena and 21mm. Anyone spotted more shopped details? 😀

Derk

 

[Dwig]

check out this franken-cameraski. It beats everything I've seen. And what's with the Voigtlander Carl Zeiss branded lens? Is this a photoshop trick or what? ...

Quite obviously, Photoshop CS5 to be specific (the tell-tale metadata reveals the camera, a NEX-5, and the editing app, PS CS5). If you zoom in closely you can see the misalignment of the texturing in the covering at the right and the less than perfect cloning of the same just to the left of the lens. Also, the perspective on the frameline preview level doesn't match that of the body.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

I didn't study the picture THAT long, Derk 😉

 

[Penny Lane]

Good thinking. I regretted all that time investigating that picture while I could've spent it outside with a camera almost immediately 😀

Derk

 

[farlymac]

The camera is, after all, just a prop. He's only selling viewfinders, so he decided to put as many brands on the camera as he could, to show what you could use it with. It's called Marketing!

PF