Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/24

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Subject: RE: [Leica] 21mm vs. 24mm
From: Austin Franklin <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:02:00 -0500

What do you disagree with?  The 28 frame in the .72 does not go to the edge 
of the viewfinder.  According to my pictures, and the 24 external 
viewfinder, the 24, in fact, does completely fill the viewfinder (if you 
can see to the extents of the viewfinder, that is), for the most part.  I 
can't vouch for it being to within .00000001 degree of accuracy, but it is 
as accurate for the 24 as the 28 frame lines are for the 28, with the 
exception of parallax.  But, you don't get any parallax correction with the 
external viewfinder anyway...

If the reason you can't see to the edges of the viewfinder is because you 
wear glasses, than that doesn't make anything I said wrong...does it?

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From: 	Nathan Wajsman
Sent: 	Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:27 AM
To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: 	Re: [Leica] 21mm vs. 24mm


I really disagree with this statement. Now, it has to be said that since I 
wear glasses. I have the
24mm, and there is no way I can see the full frame without the finder. If 
you buy a 24mm lens, it
is presumably with the goal of getting more stuff into the frame; so the 
things that are around the
edges of the image are of utmost importance. If you cannot see them when 
taking the picture,  you
might as well use a 28mm!

Nathan

Austin Franklin wrote:

> With the .72, you don't need a viewfinder for the 24.  That's why I chose 
the 24 over the 21...

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Nathan Wajsman
Overijse, Belgium and Zurich, Switzerland
e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch
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