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Subject: [Leica] Companion to the Leica M9?
From: gerry.walden at me.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:28:37 +0100
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I had an Olympus EPL2 and added the TTL viewfinder which made it eye level 
(a similar device is available for the Panasonic), and I also had a 
Panasonic GH2 with an eye level viewfinder. Both were very good at eye 
level, but the killer for me was the electronic rather than optical 
viewfinder.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
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On 13 Jul 2012, at 09:27, Charlie Chan wrote:

> No viewfinder - not a proper camera!
> 
> Charlie
> 
> Charlie Chan
> www.charlie-chan.co.uk
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> 
> 
> On 13 Jul 2012, at 09:21, FRANK DERNIE wrote:
> 
>> No viewfinder. I have tried taking pictures at arms length, -hate- it. I 
>> even don't use the camera on my phone because of this.
>> I'm probably in a minority, but after wasting money on several cameras 
>> with no viewfinder I know I would never use it.
>> FD
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
>>> Sent: Friday, 13 July 2012, 2:08
>>> Subject: [Leica] Companion to the Leica M9?
>>> 
>>> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/sony_rx100.shtml
>>> 
>>> Sounds interesting. Shirt-pocketable is always a good thing.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
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