Are you sure you're not just dealing with parallax error? Sounds like
you were up close and personal with those bluebells and I doubt that any
auxiliary optical finder to fit the hot shoe is going to suit for macro
photography or near macro. Have you maybe forgotten what it was like to
use a rangefinder up close? Remember the parallax correction marks for
near focus where "near" was probably defined as about a meter.
A 25mm finder is going to have an easier job of pointing the camera up
close than something designed for a longer focal length.
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Barker wrote:
> A few months ago I bought a cheapie external viewfinder for my Panny
> GF-1. It's marked "Helios" and has brightframes for 35 - 135. Well,
> I have used it once or twice, but today I went to photograph
> bluebells in one of my local woods and discovered that the viewfinder
> is not aligned to the lens. In fact it is useless.
>
> I have checked my rather lovely CV 25mm viewfinder on both my LX-3
> and the GF-1 and it is nicely aligned, so the fault must lie with the
> cheapie vf.
>
> So, I am now in the market for a secondhand CV 40mm viewfinder,
> preferably from someone in Europe (imports from outside Europe
> attract the attention of HM Customs, and the Post Office charges GBP8
> for the effort of showing HM Customs the parcel ...).
>
> Chris
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