Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] voigtlander 25mm comments
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:18:53 -0400

on 16/10/00 7:03 am, Guy Bennett at guybnt@idt.net wrote:

>> Hi Johnny
>> I think the cutting off the top of the frame is a closeup parallax
>> thing. The one shortcoming of the Voightlander viewfinders is no parallax
>> marks. Closeup the coverage of the viewfinder gets more and more marginal
>> and the top few percent of the image seen in the viewfinder won't be in the
>> pic. Small price to pay for the quality and cheapness of non reflex super
>> wides IMHO.
>> cheers after weeks off the LUG
>> Frank
> 
> actually, only the 15 and 25 viewfinders have no brightlines and no
> parallax correction marks. the others (28, 35, 50, 75) do.
> 
> guy

The problem still exists at infinity, which is very odd. You would assume it
is some kind of misalignment but everything looks okay.
- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com