Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't completely agree. One of the reasons I accept the parallax problems of an M, which for me are more serious than framing errors, is the focussing accuracy and quality of the lenses at wide apertures. I -never- zone focus my M personally. ----- Original Message ---- From: Pablo Kolodny <pkolodny@fibertel.com.ar> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, 28 March, 2008 2:17:36 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] CV 15mm lens on M8 Hi Frank, I agree, that's why I was saying that for what RF cameras are mostly made for is sort of point and shoot mode. Just preset focus, maybe F-stop too (Aperture priority will do the rest of the job if we speak of automatic cameras, I think M8s do this) mode and you're done. And for this specific purpose I find separate finders to work better than in-camera finders. And again, I just didn't get what/why Tina said she hates separate finders. And others agreed in that. regards Pablo frank.dernie@btinternet.com wrote: > The importance of frameline accuracy is a personal thing. OTOH the reason > why > SLR manufacturers go on ad nauseam about their viewfinder coverage is that > is > difficult and expensive to produce a 100% SLR viewfinder so most did not. > Those that did therefore made a big thing of it. > There is no doubt that if framing accuracy is a very important thing you > look > for in a camera an SLR is necessary. A Leica type viewfinder has to have > framing error varying with focusing distance and, particularly with the > more > extreme wide angle lenses, some interesting/annoying parallax effects. > Frank -- _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information