[Leica] Leica/Digital - heresy?

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

At the moment I don't need to with the M or the Rollei - Luckily, my 
prescription is now such that it seems to match perfectly with the finders. 
I have in the past had to use eye pieces with the M. With the DSLRs and 
SLRS, if I didn't have built-in diopter adjustment, I would definitely need 
corrective eye pieces.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
Keith R. Wessel
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 10:21 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica/Digital - heresy?


Do you use eyepiece correction lens with your bifocals?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 8:57 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica/Digital - heresy?


> While I won't for a second disagree about the ultimate superiority of 
> the
R8/9 viewfinder, I will say that I have had no problem with autofocus wide 
open with fast lenses - having extensively used both a 28 and 85 1.4 on the 
Nikon F100. The fastest available lens for the E-1 at this point is an f2, 
which has some issues - not related to use wide open, but I've had no 
problems using the 2.8s wide open with autofocus.
>
> But I don't have young, or particularly terrific eyes - I'm 58 in two
weeks and I wear bifocals - and I find that when I need or want to manually 
focus my DSLR it's easy to do. Again, would as large and bright a viewfinder 
as that in the Rs be nice? Absolutely. But as I said, you get used to the 
alternative pretty quickly.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
George Lottermoser
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:00 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica/Digital - heresy?
>
>
> B. D. Colen8/12/04
>
> >be some initial viewfinder shock. But you do get used to it pretty 
> >quickly.
>
> Perhaps if you have young eyes.
> Perhaps if you rely on auto-focus.
>
> However, with my eyes and the R8 I can focus almost any lens 
> accurately in
reasonable light.
>
> Whereas I cannot reliably focus the 10D even with the 80 1.4.
>
> I think that we'd all agree that AF is not reliable at large 
> apertures.
>
> This viewfinder issue, as Doug H. has said more than once, seems 
> rather
significant to my way of working, at my age.
>
> And I believe that Nikon and Canon don't really care much about it 
> because
they believe everyone will want and rely on AF.
>
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