Intended Effect – Sean Mahan’s personal blog
Sean Mahan’s personal blog
I recently got a Seagull 203-I, a Chinese-made medium format folding camera with a coupled rangefinder. I haven’t seen results out of it yet, but I’m excited to use it. It takes a special occasion to get me out of the house with a camera larger than jacket pocket size, so something that just barely crams into a men’s jeans butt pocket (ymmv) and offers some focus assurance is a great combo for me.
Of course, that rangefinder won’t help me to nail focus if it’s not adjusted properly. I didn’t find existing instructions online for setting the horizontal alignment of a Seagull 203 rangefinder, but with no other option I managed to figure it out myself, so here’s a brief account of how I did it. Again, I’m working with a Seagull 203-I, a later model with a flash hotshoe and a shutter without EV coupling. Seagull 203 cameras of one stripe or another seem to have been made from about the 1960’s into the 19
Intended Effect – Sean Mahan’s personal blog