I'm pretty sure you're right. I found a few clues on the net. It looks like the scales are for 5x7 and 4x5. 6x9 looks like it is handled with the 4x5 scale and the inner outlined frame. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:07 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Linhof viewfinder. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gene Johnson" <genej2@xxxxxxx> > To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:55 AM > Subject: [pure-silver] Linhof viewfinder. > > > > Anybody reasonably familiar with the old > > "Linhof-Universalsucher-Technika" viewfinder by Schneider? > > Mine has two scales with focal lengths from 120 to 500 on > > the left, and 90 to 360 on the right. It has an outer > > field of view and an inner one. Is one scale for 4x5 and > > the other for 6x9? Is the outer field the 4x5 and the > > inner one 6x9? I'd appreciate it if someone could > > straighten me out here :) > > Gene > > > I can guess at at least part of the answer: the ratio of > focal lengths of the two scales is right for 4x5 and 5x7 but > that would be for the same window. An e-mail to Bob Salomon > would get the true answer. bobsalomon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx He is > the US rep for Linhof. > > --- > Richard Knoppow > Los Angeles, CA, USA > dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ============================================================================ ================================= > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.