Bob Hart
April 19th, 2012, 11:36 AM
P+S Technik designed and manufactured an optical viewfinder which incorporated an optical split taken from within the space between the B4 flange and the IMS flange on their B4 mount which corrected lenses for three chip cameras to single sensor cameras.
It was a beautiful piece of work, engineered with all the precision one has become accustomed to from P+S Technik. It was very expensive and at the time was unaffordable for me.
The company offered a limited number on their German eBay site and I luckily bought one at a heavily discounted price.
For those owner-operators still with the SI2K, Ikonoskop A-CAM owner-operators who have the IMS-Mount version and RED owners who defied the threat of loss of warranty and fitted the IMS mount to their REDs, the optical viewfinder may be found to be a useful accessory. For RED owner operators, this is suited only for 1920x1080 or 2K cropped sensor work.
The camera system information is not reproduced in the viewfinder. As a focusing tool on the fly, it will be hard to beat and one traditional film operators are familiar with.
With the eyepiece in the level position and the lens zoom position matched, the natural direct left eye view and the right eye view through the finder become comfortably harmonised without eye strain, which speaks for the precision of the design and build work by P+S Technik.
It was a beautiful piece of work, engineered with all the precision one has become accustomed to from P+S Technik. It was very expensive and at the time was unaffordable for me.
The company offered a limited number on their German eBay site and I luckily bought one at a heavily discounted price.
For those owner-operators still with the SI2K, Ikonoskop A-CAM owner-operators who have the IMS-Mount version and RED owners who defied the threat of loss of warranty and fitted the IMS mount to their REDs, the optical viewfinder may be found to be a useful accessory. For RED owner operators, this is suited only for 1920x1080 or 2K cropped sensor work.
The camera system information is not reproduced in the viewfinder. As a focusing tool on the fly, it will be hard to beat and one traditional film operators are familiar with.
With the eyepiece in the level position and the lens zoom position matched, the natural direct left eye view and the right eye view through the finder become comfortably harmonised without eye strain, which speaks for the precision of the design and build work by P+S Technik.