Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think they are trying to say that a higher magnification viewfinder will allow you to use larger aperture lenses, with their inherent shallow depth of fields, with less chance of focus error. dan c. At 10:11 PM 13-02-01 +0200, Christer Almqvist wrote: >The new Leica brochure says the following on page number (ohps, pages >are not numbered), on the page with a picture of the M6TTL 0.72: >"For pictures with a higher f-stop or long focal lengths, the 0.85 >version is recommended." (The German and French texts say 'large >aperture' instead of 'higher f-stop'.) > >Can somebody explain this about the aperture to me. I often shoot at >full aperture, but I only have 0.72x viewfinder magnification. Will >my picture be better by a factor of 1.18 if I get 0.85x >magnification instead of 0.72? > >BTW this brochure is not for flipping thru. Each page is folded, and >the whole thing is 66 cm or 26 inches wide when both the left and >right hand page has been unfolded. Otherwise it is about the size of >a letter paper. With a pictures by HCB, but mostly current Germans >for the rest. > >Chris >-- >Christer Almqvist >D-20255 Hamburg, Germany and/or >F-50590 Regnéville-sur-Mer, France >