Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Am I the only one that has a problem with the Tri-Elmar? It blocks out a large portion of the viewfinder. I cannot tolerate this. Obviously old-time M users are used to this. I hear people complain all the time about the R finder cutting off the edge that will be under a slide mount, but blocking out a whole quarter of the viewfinder (28 setting) is a little excessive for my liking. And an external viewfinder seems to defeat the purpose. It makes the camera more bulky and bobbing ones head up and down to focus-view-focus-view is not my cup of tea. Perhaps that's why Tom A. put goggles on his wide angle M lenses. Zoom goggles for a Tri-Elmar ??? But they still won't make the lens barrel transparent. I was seriously interested in the Tri-Elmar as a one lens M solution. But it just won't work for me. Too much time with an R camera I guess. Jim