Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/31

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Subject: [Leica] Loof lirpa [WAS Latest on New Digital RF..April Foolish]
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:08:40 -0400
References: <270F6AC9-6665-4CA4-A6C2-6D9900B630F7@comcast.net>

The acronym for "luminance optimized optical framelines" is LOOF.
Spell it backwards...

?howard


On Mar 31, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:

> I just found this on:
> 
> http://jeffascough.typepad.com/af_rangefinder_blog/2010/03/af-rf-update.html
> 
> 
> Checkout the "HCB/Tri=X" mode and last line.

> "The framelines and AF are the biggest thing for me. The camera uses a 
> system which the manufacturers call Luminance Optimized Optical 
> Framelines. Basically the framelines alter size depending on focus 
> distance, and they also get brighter or darker depending on the outside 
> light. This makes seeing them a lot easier especially in the dark which 
> was always an issue with standard Rangefinders.
> 
> "Hopefully I'll be able to get some more pics up within the next 24-48 
> hours."
> ==============================================================================
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Dick


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