Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/02

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Subject: [Leica] Fuji X10
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 23:26:13 -0500 (CDT)

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012  Phil Swango <pswango at att.net>wrote:

>I use the SBOOI on my Pen.  Works great with the 50mm equiv. focal length
>(on the kit zoom) but it's surprisingly easy to estimate the crop for
>longer focal lengths, and even wide, down to 40mm equiv. or so.  I really
>miss eye-level finders.

>https://picasaweb.google.com/117151061481593494544/RecentUploads#5760776797219123970
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Is that the 50mm Bright Line?  I wish I had one.  I keep my LX3 zoom on the 
60mm equivalent setting almost all the time, since that's the longest on 
that camera.  I suspect that if I ever get an X10 the 85mm - 112mm range 
will get a workout.


Alan

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