Using a 3.5cm Summaron on my IIIg

[presspass]

Just to muddy the waters, there are other options. One is the Voightlander 35mm plastic finder. It's rounded corners but rectangular and a bit lower profile than the clyndrical one. Zeiss has a 35 new metal brightline finder and there's one I've never seen but have been told on this forum gives 35 equivalent - an Olympus VF 1. Used it's well under $100.

 

[Deleted member 65559]

Erik, That black SBLOO is a dream. I had been looking for one for years & never came across one. That is one beautiful piece!
As far as the plastic finders go, I've always leaned towards something that works well but also looks approximately period correct.

 

[jcb4718]

My number one priority is to have a finder that I can use with my glasses on. The Leica plastic 35mm and 28mm finders have the same optics (but the frame lines are different) and I can use both with my glasses on. I don't know if other finders would also be OK. 35mm seems to be the limit: I have not found a 50mm finder I can use with my glasses on, I have to attach a dioptric correction lens and then of course I also have to add a correction lens to the camera eyepiece.

 

[Deleted member 65559]

jcb, I also shoot with glasses on (always have). The Voigtlander 35 metal finder does check the boxes in that regard

 

[Papercut]

jcb, I also shoot with glasses on (always have). The Voigtlander 35 metal finder does check the boxes in that regard

As another eyeglass wearer, I get on okay with the metal Voigtlander 35 finder too. It's not perfect as one side or the other is just barely out of view unless I put the finder onto the surface of my glasses' lens (which I try not to do to avoid scratches). If I need to be "precise" about both side edges, I do have to do a little side-to-side move to check both sides, but usually I don't bother as I frame fairly loosely. So the Voigtlander is useable enough that I haven't bothered trying other finders.

 

[lxmike]

Thanks for all the help chaps, the lens came this morning or rather l picked it up from the post office this morning and took it out for a spin on my IIIg loaded with some Kentmere 400

 

[jcb4718]

It's such a personal thing, whether an eyepiece or viewfinder works for a glasses wearer, that I think you have made the key point, Kevin: once you get something that works, you stick with it and don't bother with other finders. I tried the Voigtlander plastic 35mm finder (the one with rounded edges). The view was OK but the whole optical unit is a slight negative lens. My eyes have almost no accommodation these days and I found I had to use a +1 dioptre correction lens to be able to see clearly. I could not see how to attach the correction lens so that was the end of that. I then tried the Leica finder and found I could see clearly. In terms of field of view both finders were about the same (I also sometimes have to a little side-to-side movement) but only the Leica finder was useable by me...and once I got a finder that worked I haven't bothered to look elsewhere.

 

[lxmike]

It's such a personal thing, whether an eyepiece or viewfinder works for a glasses wearer, that I think you have made the key point, Kevin: once you get something that works, you stick with it and don't bother with other finders. I tried the Voigtlander plastic 35mm finder (the one with rounded edges). The view was OK but the whole optical unit is a slight negative lens. My eyes have almost no accommodation these days and I found I had to use a +1 dioptre correction lens to be able to see clearly. I could not see how to attach the correction lens so that was the end of that. I then tried the Leica finder and found I could see clearly. In terms of field of view both finders were about the same (I also sometimes have to a little side-to-side movement) but only the Leica finder was useable by me...and once I got a finder that worked I haven't bothered to look elsewhere.

i am one thirds of the way through a roll in my IIIg/summaron combo will let you know how l get on using just the IIIg finder

 

[lxmike]

Hey guys, you are dangerous !
robert
PS: I do not need a new camera, I do not need a new camera with a beautiful VF like the ones Erik and Raid have, I do not need a..., I do not need... 🙂

thats what l always say and then GAS attacks😱