Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:01 PM 13-04-97 -0800, Donal Philby wrote: >LUGnuts: > >Yesterday I borrowed my studio mates Nikon F5 with 80-200 and compared >finder brightness with my N90s and 80-200. I was expecting the F5 to be >brighter. It's more money, right? > >I found, to my surprise, that if I stopped the lens on the N90s down one >stop the finders matched in brightness. > >Evidence of rumors I've heard that since most manufacturers are going to >AF they don't feel the need to concentrate on bright finders. > >But I've seen the R7, and it is at least a stop brighter than my N90s, >and the R8 makes the R7 look like it is wearing sunglasses. > >So how do they do it. What factors create a bright, easy to focus >finder???? Don't know, but my 25 year old Nikon F2 is at least 1 stop brighter than my Minolta AF 9xi. Dan C.