Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/09

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Digital rangefinders for the new Digilux
From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 08:04:48 -0500

Don,

Good news about the manual focus thing,
though I must say I will pass if it costs
much more than 1K.  Thanks for the update,

- - Phong

Don Dory wrote:
> Yesterday I played around with the Panasonic LZ10 I think.  The
> electronic viewfinder had a pretty fine pitch to the LCD and the manual
> focus worked very well.  A center rangefinder patch showed a very high
> magnification of the central part of the image until you put pressure on
> the shutter release at which point the magnified area went away
> revealing an uncluttered viewfinder.
> 
> So, I think manual focusing will be a relatively pleasant possibility
> for the new Digilux.  The feedback from the focusing ring was very much
> like the feedback from an USM or silentwave lens switched to manual.


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