Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's not a zoom, and I realize that perhaps the prime ASPH lenses may have it beat. My looking at it was for ease of travel, photographing/documenting a trip. I don't own any of the M ASPH lenses now and don't believe I want one either. The Tri_Elmar had a purpose in my mind, but cutting so much out of the frame (28 & 35) made it beyond my interest. Jim At 02:00 PM 4/20/98 -0700, you wrote: >No zoom lens at f/4 will ever match the quality of Leica M primes..... >you know that, Jim! :-) > > >At 11:08 AM 4/19/98 -0700, Jim Brick wrote: >>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 >> > > >Francesco Sanfilippo, >Five Senses Productions >webmaster@5senses.com > > >http://www.5senses.com/ >