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Hello everyone,
I'm curious if anyone knows how this might be done with one of the Super Ikontas, if it can be done at all.
I was reading about other medium format rangefinder cameras that offer a close focussing attachment. For ex&le, with the Mamiya 7 II, you can buy a bracket that attaches to the bottom of the camera that lets you compose at 10.4 inches looking through a wire frame extended in front of the camera. You can only shoot at this one distance, and the lens has to be set to 1 meter I think. I keep wondering, if this is only a means of showing where the frame lines would be with that physical frame in front of the camera, why can't that be done with any rangefinder - like the Super Ikonta? The only thing I don't understand is HOW you would know where the framing should be. I am not explaining this well - mostly because it is a new concept to me - but if anyone has any thoughts, could you please comment? Would you be able to set it up by looking through the "ground glass" ?
Thanks very much,
-Lynn
I'm curious if anyone knows how this might be done with one of the Super Ikontas, if it can be done at all.
I was reading about other medium format rangefinder cameras that offer a close focussing attachment. For ex&le, with the Mamiya 7 II, you can buy a bracket that attaches to the bottom of the camera that lets you compose at 10.4 inches looking through a wire frame extended in front of the camera. You can only shoot at this one distance, and the lens has to be set to 1 meter I think. I keep wondering, if this is only a means of showing where the frame lines would be with that physical frame in front of the camera, why can't that be done with any rangefinder - like the Super Ikonta? The only thing I don't understand is HOW you would know where the framing should be. I am not explaining this well - mostly because it is a new concept to me - but if anyone has any thoughts, could you please comment? Would you be able to set it up by looking through the "ground glass" ?
Thanks very much,
-Lynn