VIDOM: Difference between revisions

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Production era - 1933-1939
Type - Universal viewfinder for the focal lengths 3.5-13.5 cm with non-zoom, mirror-image with parallax adjusting FOOT lever.
Variants - Early models have a one piece conical nose; later version had a rounded collar between the nose cone and the body; Black and nickel, black and chrome or all chrome with long or short accessory clip and slight variations in overall length.
- VIDOM, Camera version (left 2 images)
- HEER, gray paint, wartime version with masks locked at 13.5 cm without parallax adjustment. Stereo version also produced during the war.
- KINSU - Cine version (right image) for 1.5 to 15 cm lenses. The eyepiece has a large eye-cup.
Evolution - Preceded by VILLO and replaced by VIOOH
Reference - Page 12 of Dennis Laney's Leica 1984 Accessory Guide courtesy of Mike Butkus
Designer - Ernst Leitz II
Forum discussion
Reviews
- PP.Ghisetti in Italian

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 **[http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-collectors-historica/15106-vidom-help-wanted-apply-within.html]
 **[http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-collectors-historica/181524-fontenelle-archives-78-kinsu.html Fontenelle archive KINSU]
+*'''Reviews'''
+**[http://www.leica-historica-italia.it/vidom.html PP.Ghisetti] in Italian