Don Lopp viewfinder

[Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>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?

  Any chance of getting a photo of this
gizmo?


>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?

  It would be great to have him on the
list.

Greg