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Angle finder

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Posted by Rene de Heer on October 25, 2006 at 7:49 AM
I know there are "replica" anglefinder available. I have seen the adds in Amateur photographer. They are cheaper than the original Nikon ones and i would like to get one. Anybody knows what the make is and where to get them?
Rene de Heer
Posted by Andy Bright on October 25, 2006 at 8:08 AM
These chinese copies (like the remote releases) seem to be all over ebay at the moment, you may want to try there. Price is around £20 + a fair bit of shipping from the far-east.

cheers
Posted by Larry Corbett on October 25, 2006 at 8:21 AM
Canon make them cheaper than the original Nikon ones, maybe you should come back from the dark side :biggrin:

Try Grays of westminster for a secondhand one
www.graysofwestminser.co.uk

this is off their website

DR-3 right-angle finder (Right angle finder) MINT- £99.00
DR-4 right-angle finder boxed NEW £145.00
DR-4 right-angle finder boxed MINT- £109.00

you could also try ffordes or aperture uk


:wavey:
Posted by Rene de Heer on October 25, 2006 at 8:23 AM
Thanks Larry for the invite to come back to the "white side" ......i stay with the dark side, i can recommend it!

Rene de Heer a la Prince of Darkness :cool:
Posted by Tim Munsey on October 25, 2006 at 9:47 AM
Hi Rene,
www.kauserinternational.com
They do a Seagull Digital right angle finder, think I've seem it going for £80 at castlecameras.

Tim
Posted by Garry Bowden on October 25, 2006 at 11:15 AM
Hi Rene,

Have you had a look at the Zigview Digital angle finders?

We have them here...
http://photo-scotland.co.uk/acatalog/Zigview.html

Thnaks

Garry
Posted by stuart scott on October 25, 2006 at 12:20 PM
I got the seagull angle finder, which fits pretty much every new nikon body including D200, from Hong Kong , via ebay. It cost me about £34 total ( shipping etc ). It took about 10 days and no problems.
The focusing on it doesn't lock like the Nikon version I have so its currently taking me a little longer to use it. (I probably tape the focus at the corect position )
Posted by Mike Smith on October 26, 2006 at 3:44 AM
The Seagulls are cheap and cheerful, I bought one for the other half as she has a tendancy to pinch my EpC when out and about, they work OK, but their main weakness is the plastic eye piece conversion mounts - these are really cheap and flimsy and the likely weak point to fail.