Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lea - the viewfinder and rangefinder mechanism is contained in the area above the lens and works with lens cap on , off. If you remove the lens there is at the top of the barrel opening a lever that is actuated by the lens and it is that links the focusing of the lens to the rangefinder mechanism. Ernie At 01:06 PM 3/11/03 -0600, you wrote: >Here's what comes of carrying my camera around playing with it.... > >Why, when my lens cap is on my lens can I still see a double image? Where is >it coming from and why does focusing the lens (even tho it's capped) allow >me to focus? I'm sure this is some wonder of rangefinders that I'm not >familiar with but it seems to me that the capped lens ought to be preventing >the double image. > >I guess I've always thought that the 'main' (read: non-moving) image in the >viewfinder was from the viewfinder and the second 'ghosted' image was coming >from the lens. This is clearly not the case. > >What's up? > > >Lea Murphy >Whiny Dog Press www.whinydogpress.com >New images www.whinydogpress.com/new.html >Picture a Week PAW http://www.whinydogpress.com/paw.html > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html