Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: R state-of-the art?
From: Ben <ben@teco.net>
Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 06:45:31 +0000
 
>The most telling example, to me, was while covering an NFL football 
>game and using my old FD 400 2.8 on the F1N while using my 80-200 
>2.8L on my EOS 1.  The EOS 1 was so dark to look through I kept 
>looking to see if something had gotten stuck on the front of the lens 
>obscuring some of the lens.  The image through the 400 on the old F1N 
>was at a minimum twice as bright.

That's why they upgraded the mirror on the EOS-1n for increased
reflectance to fix this problem. They also upgraded the focusing screens
and increased the viewfinder magnification slightly.