{"id":23446,"date":"2022-06-17T01:03:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T05:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=23446"},"modified":"2022-06-16T23:43:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T03:43:20","slug":"a-view-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-view-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"a view from above"},"content":{"rendered":"
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c1932 AUFSU waist level viewfinder for Leica<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. When the novel Leica camera took off in the 1930s, Leitz created a plethora of accessories to allow the tiny marvel to be used for almost every photographic task.<\/p>\n

Years earlier, folders and box cameras used a viewfinder where one looked down to see the scene in front of the camera – the ‘belly button school of photograph<\/a>y’ later emulated by the twin lens reflex cameras.<\/p>\n

To allow a Leica to do this effect, a right angle viewer called the AUFSU<\/a> was offered in 1932. Improvements were made a few years later and the ‘code’ was changed accordingly.<\/p>\n

If you are missing this earliest of waist level viewfinders, then look no further! An extremely rare example without the accessory shoe, or the ‘cross and circle’ focussing aid – just four tiny black rectangles – one in each corner of the view – will be auctioned off June 25 & 26<\/a> in our Port Colborne auction.<\/p>\n

As a bonus, this AUFSU comes complete with a brown leather case, Both viewer and case are signed “Leitz”. See you in the Port!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. When the novel Leica camera took off in the 1930s, Leitz created a plethora of accessories to allow the tiny marvel to be used for almost every photographic task. Years earlier, folders and box cameras used a viewfinder where … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[738,398,61,63,616,2163],"class_list":["post-23446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auction","tag-accessory","tag-camera","tag-leica","tag-leitz","tag-viewer","tag-viewfinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23446"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23450,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23446\/revisions\/23450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}