Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When you design it, I'm sure that Leica Camera will take a look;-) For now just swallow a teaspoon of concrete and ..... ;-) ;-) Cheers, Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 21 July 2012 17:05, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > Speculating on an ideal optical rangefinder system (i.e. something that > retains the Leica M DNA and yet improves on the 1950 state of the art M3), > what if a rangefinder has the following features: > > - LED projected framelines. This removes the clutter, solves the visibility > issue, and > > - changeable rangefinder magnification - what if the rangefinder has 0.58x > to 1.2x mag builtin (may be in 4 steps: 0.58x, 0.72x, 0.9x and 1.2x or > something similar)? This would allow more precise focusing from the wide to > tele. This will leverage the existing frame line trigger and 6 bit coding > system of course so this would be automatic > > - parallax adjustment based on focusing distance > > We know LED framelines can be done. The M9 Titanium has it. > > The XPan has 2 magnifications: one for the 45mm lens and one for the 90mm > lens. I have no idea how difficult it is to insert multiple mag piece as > needed. Anyone knows? > > The cam position should also give good indication of the focusing distance > too, along with the lens info, so #3 is technically feasible too. > > Chances are Leica nor anyone else would really spend the resource to > develop something like these, since a CMOS/Liveview is so much "simpler," > but would it be nice to have such a system? > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >