Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Of course, there has also been "the final word" from Hans Peter Cohn (no digital M) and Steven K. Lee (upgradeable digital M) on many issues. So if you don't like what you hear on some issue now, wait for the next CEO. Dante On Oct 30, 2009, at 11:12, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: Frank its been hashed over a lot elsewhere and the final word is from Stefan Daniel. About 20 'enthusiasts' nearly coming to blows trying to put their optical theories forward to each other! The optical reality is .68 in the marginally thicker M8 and M9 bodies. You might like to watch the interview with Stefan Daniel to see why this is so. If you've owned the M6 in .85 you'd see that the 35 frame is really the limit there. Personally I found the 35 marginal . I don't wear my glasses when photographing and do scrunch my eye in there too. 28 frame visible and usable (if you don't have glasses) in the .72 and .68. Magnifiers useful with the longer lenses certainly. External 28 finder works well for zone focus grabs or infinity shots. On 30 Oct, 2009, at 13:36, Frank Filippone wrote: If you can put either a 0.85 finder or a 0.72 finder in the same sized M6TTL, I see no reason that the .72 finder could not have accommodated in a M8 or M9 as a 0.72 finder, thicker body or not. If they had put in the 0.85 module, the finder would have been .... ( Math time out...) .68/.72 *.85= 0.80 Maybe the M8/M9 issue was time to market, and getting it done quickly, using available finder designs and mechanisms, therefore the shortened .68 finder.. Maybe the Elves will offer different finder options in the future. Frank Filippone red735i at earthlink.net The M9 finder is the good old 0,72 in a deeper body = 0,68. _______________________________________________ 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 -- Cheers Geoff The new LEICA M9 Passion for perfect pictures. http://www.m.leica-camera.com http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information