Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have just got back to France and picked up the magazine featuring the test of the Panomigon. This lens is a bit too esoteric for me, but there was a picture of the rangefinder that I found very interesting. The problem with separate wide angle rangefinders is that if you put them in the hot shoe, then you can't put the water level in the hot shoe, and v.v.. Now this guy has made a water level that fits into the hot shoe, and he has put another hot (cold?)shoe on top of the water level where you put the rangfinder. OK that increases parallax, but just very little. The small air bubble in the waterlevel is situated about half an inch in front of the rangefinder, and you can still see it when the rangefinder is put in place on top of the water level. Looks very practical. Perhaps you can even see the bubble when looking through the rangefinder, then perhaps not so practical. And now the real good news. The water level is only 80 french francs. I'll call the guy in the morning. (The lens is 3,400 and the viewfinder 2,500 francs; divide by about six to get to Euro or dollars.) PS I see he has got a website www.Lux-technologies.com >> From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com> >> >> An effective aperture (with ACV, whatever that >is!) of f/22, and at best >> >> geometric aperture of f/11 doesn't bode well for >either practicality nor >> >> optical performance. >> >> Sounds like a dithered center filter (the dots MUST >be denser in the center >> to work, right?). > > >Or a zone plate?? > >Jason Hall - -- Christer Almqvist D-20255 Hamburg, Germany and/or F-50590 Regnéville-sur-Mer, France