Hi
When I close up my Bolex H-16 Reflex aperture (which I do often shooting in daylight) I basically can't see anything through my viewfinder. Is there some way I can fix this? I have my viewfinder lever open (down pointing backwards) and there are no filters in the camera, although the frame filter holder is in as it should be. It basically makes it impossible to re-frame or re-focus while filming. Is there anything I can do about this? Would a parallax side finder help at all? I pretty much always use a 25mm Kern - Palliard prime lens with the camera, and I once used a much longer zoom lens for a shoot (and the viewfinder, when closing up to shoot, was still almost black).
The camera has always been like this, I bought it refurbished from a recommended seller who sells Bolex cameras a few years ago, and I've found it quite hard to find more detailed information about this particular problem on the internet. There is no mention of this in the manual I got with the Bolex. I know that viewfinder gets less light than the film so will always be dimmer, but this just seems impractical.
Any advice with this would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Jack