Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/20

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: LEDs on R6 mirror box / Salgado
From: "Charles E. Albertson" <chucko@eskimo.com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 20:45:56 -0700
Cc: pgs@thillana.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick Sobalvarro)
 
At 03:51 PM 5/20/96 -0400, Marc James Small wrote:
>At 11:35 AM 5/20/96 -0400,  Patrick Sobalvarro wrote:
>
>>(The diaphragm setting is viewed
>>through another little window on the bottom of the overhanging part of
>>the prism housing -- an admirably low-tech solution.)  
>
>This 'admirably low-tech solution' was developed first by Voigtlander and
>continued in use on their successor 35mm cameras (ZIV Icarex, Rollei 35M and
>ME).  I didn't know Leica had "adopted" it -- it is a neat and quite
>practical system.
>
     Add Nikon to that list, at least on the FM2 and FM2n.
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Charles E. Albertson
Seattle, Wash.
chucko@mail.eskimo.com