A right angle finder

Sometimes you think and weigh things up for ages and then you realize that's what you really needed.

The origins of this blog were a photography blog for my Minolta single lens reflex camera system that comprised of X500 and XD7 film bodies and matching nearly all MD system compatible lenses bar the MC series 300mm F5.6 from the mid 1970's before support for shutter priority and program modes on the XD7/5 and X700 came in.

That thing I bought recently is the Minolta Angle Finder Vn that came in its leather case and it gets around two basic issues.

The first is many of us don't have perfect eyesight so while we may be able to use the focusing aids such as the split image rangefinder in the focus screen and just about see the settings we can't see the image in sharp focus.

This has a diaoptic adjustment from minus 7 to plus 3 you can set it to match your eyes and put that right.

The other thing is the eyepieces comes out at a right angle making it easier to view when working with camera pointing downwards perhaps on a platform for photographing objects.