Overview

I really wanted to like this little all-metal rangefinder by Eastman Kodak. Not only is it lightweight and classically styled, it mounts upright in the shoe, avoiding the occasional issue that the lateral rangefinders have of bumping into knobs when you try to mount them.

HOWEVER there was a design flaw that I overlooked, which is that the distance scale is on the side with two windows. Meaning you look through the other side, focus, then turn the rangefinder and/or camera around to look at the scale, then set your camera's focus, recompose and.... By this point your subject has either gone away or fallen asleep.

That and the darkness of the split-image (as opposed to Picture-in-Picture) make this little more than a curio in my opinion.


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