A Note on the Need for Re-Designing the Auxiliary Camera View-Finder
Friend F. Baker · Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers · 1931
Due to the great variation in blimps or camera covers, it is impossible to standardize on auxiliary camera view-finders. At the present time these finders are so arranged that the finder picture coincides with the photographed picture in but one plane, so that the cameraman cannot depend on the finder picture for photographing the desired view. Several remedial suggestions are made in this paper, and the great expense caused by the lack of well-designed view-finders is briefly discussed.