[Leica] Fuji F11

[bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)]

Larry, I'm looking-into a possibility of combining two glasses/lenses  
in one mount.

My dentist wears one set of spectacles for reading/teeth to about 1.5  
metres (screen distance), with a flip-down set of glasses, mounted on  
top of the first pair, to provide distance viewing (tv, driving etc.).

His eyes not only need magnification, but also correction. It works  
great for him ...........

B.

On 15-mrt-2006, at 4:34, lrzeitlin@optonline.net wrote:

>
> The thing that bothers me about the Fuji F11, and, in fact most of  
> the current crop of P&S cameras is that there is no optical  
> viewfinder. This is a major bother to those of us of a certain age  
> that are forced to wear bifocals or reading glasses. If you have  
> presbyopia you cannot hold the camera close enough to use the LCD  
> finder with any degree of ease and eventually will find that your  
> arms are not long enough to use it at all, If you are nearsighted  
> and older than 40 you will have to take off your glasses to adjust  
> the tiny controls and view the LCD then put them on to observe the  
> scene you are photographing. And if you wear bifocals yu have to  
> bob your head up and down like a walking pigeon. Also as important,  
> you are forced to seeing the photographic world though a 2" window  
> instead of through a proper viewfinder like one on the Leica M3.  
> This degree of abstractness removes you from participation in the  
> event you are photographing.
>
> And since I am a bit of a hypocrite,
> I just put in an order for an Olympus E-500 dual lens kit at B&H. I  
> know that the sensor is noisier in low light than the E-330. Since  
> much of my image making is centered around marine and landscape  
> scenes in the Hudson Valley in pursuit of my second career as a  
> writer/photographer for boating magazines, the noise shoudn't  
> bother me too much. The price, after the rebate, is $699 for the  
> camera and the two Oly lenses. B&H also throws in a carrying case  
> and a few other goodies. I don't have any Leica R lenses but I have  
> a drawer full of Olympus SLR optics so I expect that I will  
> eventually buy an adaptor. I don't expect that it will take the  
> place of my Leicas but it is a cheap entry into semipro digital.
>
> Larry Z
>
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