edhebert Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 Does anyone have any information on the proper use of the De Mornay Budd waist level finder? I believe this finder was designed to couple with a Leica and a 50mm lens to create a TLR camera, but does anyone know what model of camera and lens? Anyone know when these were made? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry_lehrer Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 ed The one I had was for the 50mm Summar lens on a Leica IIIa. It will work on any LTM camera with rangefinder, other than the IIIg. Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew n.bra hrefhttp Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 <<A HREF="http://nemeng.com/leica/027b.shtml"> http://nemeng.com/leica/027b.shtml </A>> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_bender Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 The kind of "hand" or lever, or whatever you choose to call that extremity that grows down from the lens is supposed to be pressing against the plate of Elmar, and so whenever you focus your Elmar lens, the Waist Finder is being focussed too. It's own lens is a small uncoated equivalent of Elmat fully open (to 1/3.5).<br> While focussing, one also moves a thin cutout frame inside the finder, which compensates for parallax<br> The Finder lens can be tuned with two threaded rings that can fix the lens position to match your Elmar focussing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repete Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 Ok, sorry to bring this thread back to life. I just got one of these viewfinders. Does anyone have diagrams on how to couple it with the lense? Thanks for any answers. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photohead Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Check out this link: http://www.camerabooks.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=15&ObjectGroup_ID=109&Product_ID=7234&CatID=10 for a manual. How do you like it? Have you compared it to the leica waist level? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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