Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No zoom lens at f/4 will ever match the quality of Leica M primes..... you know that, Jim! :-) At 11:08 AM 4/19/98 -0700, Jim Brick wrote: >Am I the only one that has a problem with the Tri-Elmar? It blocks out a >large portion of the viewfinder. I cannot tolerate this. Obviously old-time >M users are used to this. I hear people complain all the time about the R >finder cutting off the edge that will be under a slide mount, but blocking >out a whole quarter of the viewfinder (28 setting) is a little excessive >for my liking. And an external viewfinder seems to defeat the purpose. It >makes the camera more bulky and bobbing ones head up and down to >focus-view-focus-view is not my cup of tea. Perhaps that's why Tom A. put >goggles on his wide angle M lenses. Zoom goggles for a Tri-Elmar ??? But >they still won't make the lens barrel transparent. > >I was seriously interested in the Tri-Elmar as a one lens M solution. But >it just won't work for me. Too much time with an R camera I guess. > >Jim > Francesco Sanfilippo, Five Senses Productions webmaster@5senses.com http://www.5senses.com/