The camera focusesįrom 2'6" to 300' to infinity. Perhaps older Kodak folding medium-format cameras. It's designed for, the round circular foot barely fits on regular accessory Or 1930s (I think pictured here to the right). My oldest rangefinder is a Saymon-Brown rangefinder from 1920s Nice civilian benefit of this technology. Rangefinders were previously used in military optics, so this was a This was perhaps the first rangefinder, produced When Iįind a legal image to post here, I will But until then, visit Stephen The Leica auxiliary vertical rangefinder is perhaps the most famous. To determine the distance to the subject. The early Leica A and Leica I cameras of the 1930s as well as the Kodak foldingĬameras had no way of telling you the distance to the subject, so how do youįocus the lens on a camera without a built-in focusing device? With your ownĪuxiliary rangefinder! These clipped into the camera cold-shoe and allowed you What to do? To the rescue were various types ofĪttachments: accessory rangefinders and viewfinders. Mechanism - this was euphemistically called " scaleįocusing" - or a camera whose built-in finder didn't match the coverage
The 1950s, it was possible to buy a camera that didn't have any coupled focusing It's hard to remember that in the golden days of early 35mm photography before Although in this day and age of 100% coverage SLR finders and digital LCD viewscreens,
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