one shoe for two feet?

[Yvon]

just won a color skopar 35mm classic in the evil bay, congratulations to myself!🙂🙂🙂🙂
now it comes a problem. I already have a light meter on my iiif, where can i put the extra viewfinder? Can i keep the meter on and shoot without the viewfinder? how does it affect the focusing?

 

[sevo]

The viewfinder distracts from the focusing, if any. Focusing is through the camera rangefinder, the accessory viewfinder would only be used for framing.

Personally I do recommend a frame-and-focus approach to accessory finder use, as the other way around, focus-and-frame, will often fail completely on dynamic subject matter. If you use the accessory finder first, framing the shot and memorizing the centre so that you can shoot right out of focusing, that method will also work with the accessory finder off camera, like a directors finder. In the long run you'll learn the framing of your favourite lenses in any case.

A few years ago CV made some double shoe brackets to combine meter and finder - but these seem to be hard to find nowadays, except for the least desirable one.

 

[kbg32]

Check out Michael Bass. He makes and modifies double shoes.

http://michaelbass.blogspot.com/