Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/13

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Subject: [Leica] What I don't like about the new M (was Leica M240)
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:05:56 +1000
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Aah but the new framelines are not electronic. They are still mechanical
but lit with LEDs
On Mar 14, 2013 11:50 AM, "Marty Deveney" <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Impossible to please everyone of course.
>
> Now that the framelines are electronic, why not make them adjust for
> distance as well as parallax so that no matter what distance you are
> focused at, you get ~5% more than the framelines show?  Like a _1963_
> Konica SIII, say.
>
> I think that would keep everyone happy.
>
> Marty
>
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