Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 21mm vs. 24mm
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:13:23 -0700

The separate viewfinders (latest ones) have a dotted parallax correction
line for close focussing. As the separate viewfinder is located above the
lens you do not have to move the framelines to the right, as the camera
viewfinder does, when focusing close.

John Collier

> From: Austin Franklin <austin@darkroom.com>
> 
> According to my pictures, and the 24 external
> viewfinder, the 24, in fact, does completely fill the viewfinder (if you
> can see to the extents of the viewfinder, that is), for the most part......but
>it is as accurate for the 24 as the 28 frame lines are for the 28, with the
> exception of parallax.  But, you don't get any parallax correction with the
> external viewfinder anyway...