Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/15

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Subject: [Leica] The rangefinder is back! - Olympus EP-1
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:20:01 -0500
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Hi Gary,

How do you suppose one would know where it's focusing
when looking through an optical view finder on top of the camera?

Or do you feel comfortable with holding the camera at arms length
to view the screen?

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
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On Jun 15, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Gary Todoroff wrote:

> Of course since it has autofocus, it does not need a rangefinder.



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