While other rangefinders can measure as close as 50cm or 32 inches the Super can measure from 50cm down to 30cm (20” down to 12”). What makes the Watameter Super unique apart from any other auxiliary rangefinder is its macro ability.
This method of rangefinder measurement is very common and works exactly like other rangefinders. The Watameter Super came in metric and feet and inches. On the left-hand side of the viewfinder window a rotating scale indicated distance. In the Watameter II and the Watameter Super the distance is shown in the internal meter on the left of the viewfinder. This process allows a photographer to accurately measure the distance to a subject and take photographs that are in sharp focus. Turning the focusing dial causes these images to converge or diverge, and when they are superimposed on each other define when the image is in focus. The different red and green light images created by the viewfinder and rangefinder apertures through the prism and mirror are shown as two ghostlike images of the same subject, one of which moves when a calibrated wheel is turned.
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The images from the two windows are focused through a prism and mirror to measure the difference between what window sees to accurately calculate distances. With its beautiful Art Deco styling and several unique features, it’s truly the Rolls Royce of auxiliary rangefinders.Īt heart, an auxiliary rangefinder is a fairly simple device which uses a coincident-viewing distance focussing mechanism working on the simple principle of triangulation. This camera’s Staeble-Werk 45mm Finon lens can focus as close as 22cm, and the Watameter Super is the only means (apart from a tape measure) that would allow me to accurately shoot with the camera at such close distances. The auxiliary rangefinder I chose to buy is the Watameter Super (shown attached to my Finetta 99). Some common models are the BLIK by Lomo, Hugo Meyer Pocket Range Finder, Walz, Widor, Ideal, Certo Certus, Medis, Pollux, Rowi, Prazisa and Gallus to name quite a few. The top-quality versions are the Leitz Fokos, Kodak Service Rangefinder, Kodak Pocket Rangefinder, Brownie Measure-Rite, AMF, Saymon Brown and the unusual Kuhn Flexameter. There were dozens of auxiliary rangefinders produced from the 1930s, up to the Fotoman which is produced today in China, however the level of quality and features of these numerous rangefinders vary dramatically. It was quickly realized that adding a separate rangefinder mechanism to a zone focus camera amounted to an affordable and impactful improvement to these hard-to-focus but otherwise excellent machines.
For as long as photography has existed there have been accessory companies producing gadgets that solve problems and make life easier. But that doesn’t change the fact that it (and countless other viewfinder and zone focus cameras) isn’t as accurate as a rangefinder camera or SLR.Įnter human ingenuity and the drive for improvement. The Olympus Trip 35, for example, was one of the best-selling cameras of all time, selling more than ten million copies worldwide over a fifteen year period of production. The user would set the distance to subject on the lens barrel and hope for the best.Įven with this limitation taken into account, there were some incredibly good scale focus cameras produced in the mid-20th century. These cameras that featured neither rangefinders nor focusing screens were known as scale focus or zone focus cameras, or viewfinder cameras.
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