Leon Rodriguez Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 On my last picture, Double Tap, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490847/combined My little faithful mini- director's viewfinder got ripped off. I'm just now getting around to buying another one. I was of course looking for the best buy I could find and finally purchased a German made TEWE Viewfinder on e-bay sold by E.J. Baughman co. of 1914 N. Cogswell Rd. in El Monte, Calif. from a Canadian gal. Has anyone ever owned one of these? Does anyone know where I can get an operator's manual on how to calculate the focal lengths on this instrument. I can't figure it out for the life of me. You can see from the photo why I purchased it. It looks like a straight ahead DVF like a Mark 4 or something like that. It's actually like some kind of slide rule that ranges from 0-100 on one scale, 0-250 on anther that is linked to a scale in inches up to 40" The words "Riesel-Ikon" and "Image Orth." are headings of scales indexed from 25-200. Any help deciphering this puzzle would be most appreciated as it will have to do until I can afford a used Mark V. Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfredoparra Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 I was researching directors view finders and came across this website at the same time I came across this company this is a copy and paste from there site Please email us with any questions you may have: Service at service@alangordon.com Telephone: (800) 825-MOVI Fax: (323) 871-2193. Mailing address: Directors Viewfinder, 5625 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California 90038, USA. here is the link http://www.directorsviewfinders.com/main_frame.html I would like to talk to you at a later point about making a movie if you have time. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Hal Smith Posted August 12, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted August 12, 2008 Image Orth? That's probably short for an Image Orthicon television camera..........and therefore quite ancient. 3" IO's had a target size almost identical to that of a 35mm still camera which is close to a 35mm film Vistavision frame. If your finder has a setting for a 50mm lens on an IO the field of view would be similar to that of a 25mm lens on a standard 35mm Academy aperture motion picture camera. If you know a professional Camera Assistant they can probably help you work out a framing chart to "calibrate" your finder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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