Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Finders
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:24:18 -0800

At 08:34 AM 11/17/99 -0500, TEAShea@aol.com wrote:
>The real reason that all SLR's cut off some of the frame is to enable them to
>make the mirror smaller - thus allowing a lighter, smaller mechanism.

No, it's because it is very, very difficult to make a viewfinder that shows 
exactly 100 percent of the frame. The mirrors on SLRs nowadays are plenty 
big to convey the whole picture.

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA

http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

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