FSU Rangefinders and Your Glasses: a cheap solution...

[Rense Haveman]

One of the well-known problems with those FSU cameras is the particular design of the viewfinder, which seems to be developed to scratch your glasses in the first place! Why the Soviet engineers did it in this way is completely beyond my imagination... Thinking of a solution for my Kiev-4A, my eyes fell on the lid of one of those Fuji Velvia slide boxes, the no-flat black ones. After cutting the ridge from the outer edge and the top of the central part, it just fits tightly around the Kievs viewfinder!

Now, THAT's a Soviet solution!!! Well... probably to sexy looking....LOL




A cheap solution... by Rense Haveman, on Flickr

 

[Pete Askew]

What, no brittle rubber full of skin sensitisers or cast iron? - it'll never catch on!!

What a great idea!!

 

[Brian Moore]

Excellent idea, Rense. I have Kiev 4a. Never noticed it scratching my glasses, but a nice tip nonetheless. However, can you still see the entire frame in the viewfinder...?

 

[Rense Haveman]

Excellent idea, Rense. I have Kiev 4a. Never noticed it scratching my glasses, but a nice tip nonetheless. However, can you still see the entire frame in the viewfinder...?

Yes, no problem there, at least not for me... the viewfinder is tiny anyway....
And this solution, only tried it today!, helps a bit preventing light coming in from behind.... So, I'm quite pleased with it....

Probably the scratching thing is just me... ruined my one month old glasses already.....

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Genius solution - as you say, very USSR!

I always remember the story of NASA spending millions in R&D to develop a ballpoint pen which would work in micro-gravity - ending up with the Papermate.

The Russians just decided they could use a pencil!

 

[Rense Haveman]

Genius solution - as you say, very USSR!

I always remember the story of NASA spending millions in R&D to develop a ballpoint pen which would work in micro-gravity - ending up with the Papermate.

The Russians just decided they could use a pencil!