Re: Don Lopp viewfinder

[Paul Talbot <ptww@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Erker wrote:
> 
> >However, I've been meaning to post here that Don Lopp
> >told me at Green Bay about making a viewfinder for his
> >Sputnik.  I'm not very good at conjuring up mental images,
> >so he sent me one to look at.  (It would have been useless
> >for me to mention it before seeing one!)  He mounted a
> >viewfinder on a piece of wood that slides over the closed
> >finder of the Sputnik.  There are a lot of horizontal and
> >vertical framing lines in the viewfinder, but I haven't
> >figured out what all of them are for.  There is also a
> >center circle.  Don says he has a lot of viewfinders, and
> >he is a viewfinder fanatic.  It sounded like he makes a
> >viewfinder for all his cameras.
> 
>   I still can't quite picture it. Does
> it have lenses in it, or is it just a
> fancier sport finder than the Spud has
> built in?

It definitely has lenses.

>   Any chance of getting a photo of this
> gizmo?

Good thought.  I'll work on it.

> >Don has such an incredible wealth of knowledge and experience,
> >it sure would be wonderful to get him on the list somehow.  A
> >relative gave him a computer that was supposedly set up for
> >e-mail but he can't get it to work.  (I can't tell whether
> >it's a machine problem or a user problem.)  Of course the
> >next obstacle is he doesn't know how to type.  :-(  But he
> >*is* interested in joining us on-line.
> 
>   Anyone what to drive to his house to
> get him going?

I was hoping someone would think of that!  :-)

>   It would be great to have him on the
> list.

Sure would!

Paul Talbot