Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/11

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Subject: [Leica] Pt Three of Digilux 2 posted
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Sun Apr 11 10:53:46 2004
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>That is so Karen, I have a G2 which I like a lot but the viewfinder 
>is not a patch on the M type IMHO. The G2 has a crude moving corner 
>to black out a side of the 'finder for parallax correction. Zoom 
>framelines would require a conceptual redesign of the viewfinder, 
>very expensive maybe not even feasible.


Well, Canon has LED  projected  focus indicators on their EOS SLRs, 
so I can't see why you can't have LED projected zoom framelines in a 
M-style rangefinder.  Leica already has the technology to project the 
exposure indicator, so it's just a small stretch to project four 
corners of a frameline that moves. This would allow for true parallax 
compensation and field size change.

What I like about the Leica M series is that I'm seeing the world, 
not the world projected onto a frosty piece of glass, or worse, on a 
small TV screen.

Karen


-- 
Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/

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