Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/27
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On 27 Jul 97, Kari Eloranta wrote:
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> About pellicle mirrors: you always loose in finder brightness -
But veeerry little. See Markerink's post earlier today.
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> One more aspect is that depending on lightning conditions a finder
> may leak light into the mirror chamber. Mirror in the up-position
> blocks light quite well as we all know ;-).
Don't know how Canon has dealt with this possibility, do you W-J? Suffice
to say, conventional SLRs have this potential problem also. I end up
scratching my glasses because of scrunching the viewfinder so tightly to
them to both see the whole field of view and to guard against the light
entrance.
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Roger Beamon
Naturalist & Photographer
Leica Historical Society Of America
mailto:beamon@primenet.com
Thought for the day:
It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.