Which 35mm LTM

[Xmas]

The turret finder is nice, but a lot more expensive than the 35mm finder. I got one of the latter with my J-12---I don't remember if it was a package deal or what---and it's a good-quality, usable finder.

-NT

The (ie most) turret(s) has (have) a frame you can see out side of and does other focal lengths as well, so yes well expensive but not if you are going for a system and spend time looking for individual finders in gbag.

 

[georg16nik]

The turret finder is nice, but a lot more expensive than the 35mm finder. I got one of the latter with my J-12---I don't remember if it was a package deal or what---and it's a good-quality, usable finder.

-NT

+1

the dedicated 35mm finder does the job and is way smaller than the russian uni turret, which is a copy of the pre-WWII contax, thus it's paralax scale for close distances is calculated for taller cameras than barnack leicas.

 

[Xmas]

The ContaxII, III, Barnack clones and FSU follow on each have different heights but the FSU people mirror imaged the Zeiss design doing the Contax to left of shoe and Barnack to right of shoe mirror. To allow use of gloves.

Dont think they would have altered the scale on the parrallex though, even Zeiss did not?

 

[georg16nik]

They didn't altered the paralax scale, since the early Kiev is identical to Zeiss Contax. KMZ simply mirrored the turret, so its usable on Kiev, Fed, Zorki etc. Why make 2 non-interchangeable turrets, when they could get away with 1 and call it a day - they fixed parallax with the printing frame / masking in DR.
The uni turret parallax scale is more accurate on FED 2, since its taller camera than Leica II, III, FED 1, Zorki 1 etc.

 

[Xmas]

The early FSU ones were not mirrored they are near clones of the Zeiss.

Zeiss did not make separate finders for the Contax II and Contax III which were considerably different in height - by a bulky exposure meter.

The parrallex compensation is by a little scale for each focal length, had it been critical Zeiss could have had a different scale and different datum for Contax II and Contax III. Zeiss were masters at overdesign.

 

[frank]

CV makes great external finders. I have their 28, 35, and 50 finders.

 

[Iaeaix]

Hello everyone, I am looking for a 35 mm lens for my Leica IIIf. Other than buying a Leica lens are there any other good options?
I shoot almost exclusively BW film. I would like to avoid breaking the bank if at all possible.

Thanks in advance.

Joaquin.

Canon LTM lens are good options, early chrome version lens were built like solid rock, performance is decent