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Subject: [OM] Re: OT: Re: Possible focusing aid for 5D with MF lenses
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:41:44 -0400
Lots of look alikes on the bay.  This one looks like it could be a 
duplicate of angle finder C but it doesn't say anything about image 
orientation.
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Chuck Norcutt

usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:

>  Hi Jeff,
> See below Pnet posts.  I have no 1st hand knowledge and J. obviously does.
> Mike
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> Angle Finder B or C
> Hubert Sammons , mar 15, 2003; 10:22 p.m.
> I have an Elan 7 and hope to soon have a new 10d. Does anyone have any 
> experience with the Canon angle finders. The Canon info says both the Elan 7 
> and the new 10d takes the C angle finder which is twice as expensive as the b 
> angle finder. What is the difference? What does the b fit the c won't fit. 
> Thanks 
> Hugh Sammons
>  
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> Answers
> Daniel Sandlin , mar 15, 2003; 10:43 p.m.
> I too have been looking at these so I don't have to fold over my already 
> screwed up back while doing macro and other closeups. As far as I can see the 
> difference is the mount that allows them to slide over the eye peice. what I 
> have elected to doing is simply find the cheapest one I can find on ebay and 
> if it don't fit, simply fabricate an eye peice to it so that it will fit. 
> Photogrpahy on a budget! I have also though about simply building one. with 
> tubes a prism and a couple of mirrors attached to an eye cup. I have quite a 
> few prisms from various binoculars I have cannibalized, a dremel to cut down 
> mirrors and tubes. Amazing what us swamp folk can do when bored in a cold as 
> piss Oregon winter.
> 
> 
> 
> Paul -   , mar 15, 2003; 11:17 p.m.
> The angle finder C is a beauty, magnifying from Full View of Viewfinder at 
> 1.25x, to 2.5x closeup for critical focusing the center part of the image, at 
> the flip of a switch. Unbelievably Bright, Rightside Up, NON-REVERSED image! 
> 10 elements in 7 groups, and roof prism. Built in Diopter adjustment of -5 to 
> +3. I can take off my glasses! Angle Finder C also has two adapters so that 
> it can fit any EOS (and perhaps older models) cameras. 
> I think the Angle finder B reverses the image top-to-bottom and/or 
> side-to-side, it doesn't have the option of 2.5x (for critical focusing), and 
> I don't know if it has the eye-piece diopter adjustment. 
> The "C" model is a solid pice of equipment! Nothing cheap about the design or 
> build of this one! Well worth the price.
> 
> 
> 
> Paul -   , mar 15, 2003; 11:22 p.m.
> Oh, I forgot to add - the Angle Finder C also rotates (without removing from 
> camera) so you can look into it from the top, bottom, or either side of the 
> camera, or the angles in between!
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