Uncoupled rangefinder?

[berci]

Hi fellow sufferers,

I have got hold of a very nice Ercona II, which is nearly a very nice folding 6x9 rangefinder camera apart from that little insignificant problem that it is without a rangefinder viewfinder.

Can anyone recommend a hotshoe mountable rangefinder?

Picture of Ercona II -> Ercona II

 

[peter_n]

Bumping this for anyone who may have an answer...

 

[VictorM.]

Voigtlander, Walz, Prazisa, Kodak, Heydes, etc. Do you want meters or feet? The FSU sellers have a seemingly unending supply of metric rangefinders.

 

[Stu W]

http://www.ritzcam.com/catalog/index.html
Look under Leica Copy Viewfinders. He has a few. Stu

 

[bmattock]

The Voigtlander rangefinder is one of the nicest - eBoy seller certo6 almost always has a few of those laying around. The Prazisa (sp?) is also nice.

 

[berci]

Many thanks guys,

I have just started adding them to my Watch this Item list.

I might end up with more than one.

The thrill of the hunt. #:-]

Berci

 

[HansDerHase]

For a cheap and almost instant rangefinder check this out:

DIY Rangefinder

 

[geraldfinnegan]

Depth of Field Preview: your own fingers

Depth of Field Preview: your own fingers

Here's another cheap tool: your fingers for a depth of field preview if your camera doesn't have one. If you're looking at a normal day light scene in a relaxed way, glancing around, not staring at any one object and straining, your eyes are fairly open, the
pupil, because your eyes are taking in a good deal of the scene's light to glance around it. So figure that's what the scene will look like with your camera lens set fairly wide aperture-wise or at least what would be an average mid-range aperture setting. Alternately, just look at the scene with a fairly open aperture thru the camera.
If you want to then see how it would look with increased depth of field, put your two thumb tips and two forefinger tips from each hand together so they form a little square-like peep-hole. Keep the "square" as wide as you can while the fingers & thumbs still touch (big peep-hole). Then, just squeeze them together more and more and peep through the now smaller peep-hole. Everything in the scene will be more in focus because of depth of field.
It's imprecise of course but gives you a rough idea. of what increaed depth of field will do to your scene.
jerry