Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I do not understand this part of your comment.... the viewfinder can only be used with 50ish mm lenses and longer......Can you explain your thinking? In a RF camera, since you never look through the lens, but rather at a set of frame lines in the VF, it makes no difference what the FL is. Your magnification of the VF allows you to keep both eyes open during shooting with the RF lines effectively superimposed on the scene. Even with a 180mm lens or a 24mm lens, the effect is the same. ( yes, the image gets pretty hard to frame correctly at these extremes, but it still allows the superimposition to work, for you to see the entire scene and pick out areas that are outside your lenses view: A the trick that an SLR can never accomplish. Comment about the WA lenses is understood, and I agree with you. However there is no fix to this problem for film cameras except a smaller mag VF. On the Digi-M, because of the smaller sensor, will be effectively negated. Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net You are right Frank for 2 eyes we need nearly 1x mag but then the viewfinder can only be used with 50ish mm lenses and longer. The worst part of my Epson RD1 is the 1x viewfinder, I can't see the whole 28mm (equiv 42mm field of view) frame with my glasses on. Most of the time I have to use an additional viewfinder. Mind you I expect with the small rangefinder baseline the higher mag viewfinder is necessary for focussing precision. Frank