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Subject: SLR viewfinders (was: Re: [Leica] M42x1-Canon EOS adapter ...)
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Wed Aug 30 17:27:09 2006

Now I've got to buy one for those slr moments....damn your eyes.
Ok so I need educating on the whole R world, more specifically which lenses
suitable for the SLs etc. Not the big tele end ;-)

Cheers
Hoppy

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From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
telyt@earthlink.net
Sent: Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:20
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: RE: SLR viewfinders (was: Re: [Leica] M42x1-Canon EOS adapter ...)

G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Up until now, I'd always thought that my MF Nikons (FE2 F2, F3 etc
etc)were
> great finders vs all of the AF SLRs I've looked through. That is with
proper
> pentaprisms and the split image (which is what I used the most). I guess
> that's still valid, however you've explained that the SL & SL2 are much
> better again. Why doesn't that surprise me?

Yup... I thought my Nikon FTn with E screen had a great viewfinder... and
it is... but the SL and SL2 are leaps and bounds ahead in terms of clarity
and ease of focus.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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