Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >Because of the suggestions of many I once thought upgrading the camera to M Leicas. I understand everything is better, but I would like to >stick with this fine piece of craftmanship, and its artistic design. Leica III's are more beatiful to me than M's. (MY OPINION, ok? Maybe I >am just a poor lost-sheep. :-P) Not at all. I too am a schraubleica user. The M cameras while attractive from a lens availability point of view have failed to hold my interest like the older leica cameras. > >I would like to ask y'all about the 50mm viewfinder, SBOOI. Does it give me as good view as M3's viewfinders? or at least better than >the internal viewfinders of IIIf's? > The SBOOI is a good finder. I would rate it better than an M viewfinder. The frame is very easily visible the image is very bright. As it is precisely x1 magnification it can be used with both eyes open. Doing this the viewfinder disappears. Ones eyes work normally but there is a bright frame "floating in space". This makes for very comfortable photography. I highly recommend it. Richard Urmonas rurmonas@senet.com.au