Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/02

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Subject: [Leica] Bessa R3A or M7
From: neal at nairobisafari.com (Neal Friedenthal)
Date: Sun Jan 2 20:46:16 2005
 
>Bill Marshall billgem at hotmail.com
>Sun Jan 2 20:19:18 PST 2005

>The problem with the R3A as a replacement for the M7 is that you're 
>restricting yourself to a short baseline & to a viewfinder that 
>only shows 40 mm framelines & longer. If that fits your shooting style, 
>fine. I agree with Karen. The Zeiss Ikon presents neither of 
>these limitations.



Bill, 

The 1:1 view finder makes the R3a's rangefinder about equivalent to the .72 
mag of the standard M7 (its not exact but close). 
Also I've found that the 40mm frame is close enough to a 35mm to be no great 
problem. 

Neal F