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30 July, 2016

Hacking a 35mm viewfinder out of a Canon AF7 – Guest post by Frank Lehnen

By Frank Lehnen

I wondered if it was possible to use the gorgeous viewfinder of this humble lump of plastic on a real camera such as the LEICA IIIa which has a definitely crappy viewfinder - at...

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Geoff Chaplin on Olympus XZ-1 Digital Compact – Travelling in The Punjab and Hindu Kush
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