Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/04

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Subject: Re: The Leica R8 and moving up from Canon
From: "Roger Beamon" <beamon@primenet.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 06:31:33 -0700

On  3 Aug 97,  ted grant wrote:

<snip>

> Why do you change the prism? I know the old Nikon f I had, I think it
> was, so damn long ago now, you could take the prism off and I only did
> that when I wanted to put the camera right on the ground or the edge of
> the swimming pool at the Olympics or similar sports events.

The Nikon F required that the prism be removed to accomplish the screen 
change.
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