Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks B. D., good point - I forgot about the autofocus. Although, for all the money they put into that damn SLR system you could superimpose the focusing information over the rangefinder display so the focusing ring will interact to set the focus point and you'll see the active "box" shown overlayed over the optical rangefinder. Then you'd be able to add ISO/f-stop/shutter speed onto the same display while looking through it at the natural scene. Doing this would HAVE to be cheaper than those crazy mirrors - and smaller and lighter too. And in full manual you use the rangefinder... I do like the anti-shake technology. Adam On 6/21/06, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote: > It would have made MUCH more sense to put a rangefinder in it -that would > have made it a total killer, imho, but the question would have been how > they > would have linked the auto focus glass to a rangefinder - although it could > have been a 'rangefinder' in the same way that the G1 and G2 were > "rangefinders." > Yes - Too dark. Too small. Not useful at all for manual focusing and pretty > annoying for autofocusing. > > > On 6/21/06 1:23 PM, "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So while it's there it's what, too dark? not useful for focusing? They > > went to a lot of expense to create it - and it seems to me "to what > > end?" It sounds like putting a range-finder on it would have been MORE > > useful? > > > > I'm not trolling here. I've gone out looking to hold an E330 in my > > hands but haven't walked into a camera shop that actually had one. > > > > Adam > > > > On 6/21/06, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Yup - a pretty crappy excuse for one - same vf system as is in the > >> Olympus > >> E330 - far too small and dark. However, I am finding that the more I > >> use it, > >> the more I like the "live view finder" - or thinking of it another way, > >> the > >> 'ground glass.' Coupling this with a near-normal slr body, and > >> interchangeable lenses, provides a whole new way of seeing. But don't > >> even > >> think about that optical viewfinder. ;-) > >> > >> > >> On 6/21/06 1:19 PM, "Christopher Williams" <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> So it does have an optical VF. > >>> > >>> Chris > >>> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>> From: "Adam Bridge" > >>> Subject: [Leica] Panasonic releases the Lumix DMC-L1 > >>> > >>> > >>>> On the Panasonic site there's an interesting discussion of this camera > >>>> and the Leica/Panasonic lens - although (warning to Frank) it's > >>>> marketing so don't get too excited. > >>>> > >>>> Surf to: > >>>> > >>>> <http://panasonic.co.jp/pavc/global/lumix/> > >>>> > >>>> Then click on "Developers tell the story" which is below the big > >>>> picture of the camera at the top left of the page. Vol. 4 deals with > >>>> the Leica D Varia-Elmarit lens. > >>>> > >>>> Pricey bugger though and this doesn't even have a red dot on it . . . > >>>> yet. > >>>> > >>>> Adam > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >