Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/01

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Subject: SLR viewfinders (was: Re: [Leica] M42x1-Canon EOS adapter ...)
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Fri Sep 1 22:59:24 2006

Actually the SL VF's are great with the big telys.  I have my 560 Telyt on 
my SL aqnd it works great, very easy to focus anywhere on the screen.

Gene


-------------- Original message from "G Hopkinson" 
<hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>: -------------- 


> Now I've got to buy one for those slr moments....damn your eyes. 
> Ok so I need educating on the whole R world, more specifically which 
> lenses 
> suitable for the SLs etc. Not the big tele end ;-) 
> 
> Cheers 
> Hoppy 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
> telyt@earthlink.net 
> Sent: Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:20 
> To: lug@leica-users.org 
> Subject: RE: SLR viewfinders (was: Re: [Leica] M42x1-Canon EOS adapter 
> ...) 
> 
> G Hopkinson wrote: 
> 
> > Up until now, I'd always thought that my MF Nikons (FE2 F2, F3 etc 
> etc)were 
> > great finders vs all of the AF SLRs I've looked through. That is with 
> proper 
> > pentaprisms and the split image (which is what I used the most). I guess 
> > that's still valid, however you've explained that the SL & SL2 are much 
> > better again. Why doesn't that surprise me? 
> 
> Yup... I thought my Nikon FTn with E screen had a great viewfinder... and 
> it is... but the SL and SL2 are leaps and bounds ahead in terms of clarity 
> and ease of focus. 
> 
> Doug Herr 
> Birdman of Sacramento 
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com 
> 
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