Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pondering this question of a hotshoe-mounted viewfinder, I've just realized - -- I think -- that the hotshoe is in fact closer to the center of the lens, horizontally, than is the rangefinder. The two windows to either side of the lens on an M3 are evenly spaced from the center of the lens -- which I suppose means that the focusing triangulation points to an apex in the very center -- but surely the *framing* of the image is done solely through the lefthand window, which is considerably to the left of what the lens sees. Am I missing something here? In other words -- even with parallax adjustment -- it would seem as if the image is always slightly off horizontally (and that this is somewhat rectified by a hotshoe-mounted finder). I probably am skipping over a crucial logical step, or it would seem that the framing mechanism on the Leica is by necessity seriously inaccurate in the horizontal plane, especially at close range. Douglas Cooper http://www.dysmedia.com