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Voigtländer Brilliant with Heliar lens. Wonderfully small & light, I'm planning to make this my travel camera.
 

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Mike, how is that rangefinder in practical use? It strikes me as a rather outrageous, excessive, and cumbersome demonstration piece by F&H ("Look! We can make anything work") and probably harder than focusing the 'flex the old-fashioned way. But I've never handled one.

Am I correct also that once you've installed the thing, there's no case or cover for it, and you're putting the camera away in your bag with that central glass piece exposed? (And you wouldn't want to uninstall and reinstall with every stop along a walk or trek, because you'd have to redo the calibration each time?)

--Dave

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All dressed up. by Mike Novak, on Flickr
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Argenticien said:
Mike, how is that rangefinder in practical use? It strikes me as a rather outrageous, excessive, and cumbersome demonstration piece by F&H ("Look! We can make anything work") and probably harder than focusing the 'flex the old-fashioned way. But I've never handled one.

Am I correct also that once you've installed the thing, there's no case or cover for it, and you're putting the camera away in your bag with that central glass piece exposed? (And you wouldn't want to uninstall and reinstall with every stop along a walk or trek, because you'd have to redo the calibration each time?)

--Dave
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You only have to calibrate it once, although it is very easy to calibrate. And it installs/uninstalls in second. As far as focusing, it works very well, snaps into focus, much faster than the ground glass, with the added bonus of a non-reversed image. Certainly not for everyday use, but for sporting events, children, or pets, anywhere that the ability to focus quickly and accurately is a must, I think that it could be quite useful. It might garner too much attention for street photography, though.
 
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