Designed to operate in the same manner as the newly developed automatic aerial machine-gun sights, the Auricon Automatic-Parallax Camera View-Finder furnishes the cameraman, while he is shooting a motion picture, with an exact image of that picture as it will later appear projected on the screen. Originally designed and manufactured for the U.S. Armed Forces, this Finder answers a need long felt by cameramen engaged in all kinds of work and using all types of equipment because it is no longer necessary to "hope for the best" after that first inadequate peep through the lens, or to try to follow action through a finder that is known to be "just a bit off:' Incorporating the latest developments in the science of optics, this first really modern finder is completely accurate and operates with the utmost simplicity. It provides an erect, needle-sharp image framed on ground-glass, right side up, and correct right-to-Ieft, located at the front of a deep shadow box for maximum contrast and visibility. The finder image is so clear that a newspaper headline can be read with the finder at a distance of fifteen feet, or an airplane can be accurately located while just a speck in the sky. There is no dilution of the image as seen in the finder, and no "ghosts" or multi-reflection in the image, nor does the cameraman see his own reflection in the glass when working in bright sunlight. The Finder combines automatic parallax compensation with a view-range finder which enables the cameraman to measure the distance from camera to subject, by focusing the subject in the Finder.