Been using X100 for more than a year, I found out that the camera's vintage design fits very well with all accessories from the age of Rangefinder cameras. In term of functionality, they probably can't match nowadays cameras. However for aesthetic or "tuning" purpose, the vintage pieces look truly standing out by the side of current line of cameras from Fujifilm ( X100, X10. X1-pro,..) Usually each piece comes with a story of it own thus I also found my self a new hobby collecting them.
This thread is to share what I'm having in my collection and future found. If you have any interesting accessories, please feel free to share, too
Voigtlander Kontur 50mm.
This is a very unusual finder, and one of my favorites. It is an ingenious (and very small) finder. It uses a high-powered positive lens to focus your nondominant eye on a brightline mask. The idea is that you look through it with the right eye, and keep the left eye open. The finder itself shows the frameline for 50mm, instead of the image! I know it sounds strange, but our brain puts the images together when one eye sees the image and the other sees the frameline. This finder will show you virtually unlimited peripheral vision! It's really too bad other manufacturers did not follow this idea. See it and try it, you might love it like I do. Nevertheless, this is a unique finder which can do good things for your shooting technique, well worth looking for.
Voigtlander Turnit (Original 35/100mm)
The same person at Voigtlander who figured out that you could use an optical illustion to project framelines into a user's stereo vision also realized that the magnification of a 35mm finder is roughly the reciprocal of a 100mm finder. The result is the Turnit, which can be rotated 180 degrees to be either a passable 35mm finder or a decent 100mm finder.
Argus 35/50/100 Turret Viewfinder
A rare piece of the infamous turret viewfinder from Argus which is even harder to find than its Leica & Russian Kiev variants. The view finder offers 3 focal length of 35mm/50mm/100mm by simply rotate the mounting to the desired focal length. Parallax compensation is also combined in the rotating frameline mount.
Leica 35-135 Imarect/ VIOOH (1940-1964)
This timeless piece looks cute and is a great improvement on the VIDOM because it has two prisms, so things are laterally correct. This makes it much easier to use. Both the VIDOM and Imarect/VIOOH are parallax compensating (manually). Like its older sibling, the Imarect is also a cropping finder. You can't see outside the framelines ('cuz it's a crop), which is one of the beauties of the Leica system.
*Credits: some of the descriptions are taken from the web.
This thread is to share what I'm having in my collection and future found. If you have any interesting accessories, please feel free to share, too
Voigtlander Kontur 50mm.
This is a very unusual finder, and one of my favorites. It is an ingenious (and very small) finder. It uses a high-powered positive lens to focus your nondominant eye on a brightline mask. The idea is that you look through it with the right eye, and keep the left eye open. The finder itself shows the frameline for 50mm, instead of the image! I know it sounds strange, but our brain puts the images together when one eye sees the image and the other sees the frameline. This finder will show you virtually unlimited peripheral vision! It's really too bad other manufacturers did not follow this idea. See it and try it, you might love it like I do. Nevertheless, this is a unique finder which can do good things for your shooting technique, well worth looking for.
Voigtlander Turnit (Original 35/100mm)
The same person at Voigtlander who figured out that you could use an optical illustion to project framelines into a user's stereo vision also realized that the magnification of a 35mm finder is roughly the reciprocal of a 100mm finder. The result is the Turnit, which can be rotated 180 degrees to be either a passable 35mm finder or a decent 100mm finder.
Argus 35/50/100 Turret Viewfinder
A rare piece of the infamous turret viewfinder from Argus which is even harder to find than its Leica & Russian Kiev variants. The view finder offers 3 focal length of 35mm/50mm/100mm by simply rotate the mounting to the desired focal length. Parallax compensation is also combined in the rotating frameline mount.
Leica 35-135 Imarect/ VIOOH (1940-1964)
This timeless piece looks cute and is a great improvement on the VIDOM because it has two prisms, so things are laterally correct. This makes it much easier to use. Both the VIDOM and Imarect/VIOOH are parallax compensating (manually). Like its older sibling, the Imarect is also a cropping finder. You can't see outside the framelines ('cuz it's a crop), which is one of the beauties of the Leica system.
*Credits: some of the descriptions are taken from the web.
