Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Go to a photo flea market or junk shop. Buy a truly yucky polarising filter. >Take it apart. Voila! My....I mean the Phantom's...exhaustive technical >wizardry was to show how silly the "shareware" pricing is. If we all chipped >in we could buy one sheet of polarising gel and parcel it out. Yikes! >Socialism is running amuck! > >John Collier > >PS: Count me out, I am happy enough with my finder and the few times it >flares, I use my finger to partially block the frameline illumination >window. That way I get my cake (bright finder 99% of the time) and eat it >too! john, hear hear (or is that 'here here'?). while the flare problem is indeed a problem, i experience it so rarely that - though i bitch about it at the time (guess i do that about everything) - i can live with it. though i'm intrigued by the various 'improvements' third parties offer (and hope they will continue to do so), i must say that i'm usually reluctant to try them out - i like the camera too much as it is, and am willing to live with the 1 or 2 things i wish it didn't do or live without the 1 or 2 things i wish it did. guy