Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, We already have parallax adjustment based on focusing distance on all M? cameras. Hold your camera very steady and watch the frame lines as you focus from minimum distance to infinity. If it isn't visible on those 28mm lines, shift the control to 35mm or longer or put in a longer lens. Regards, Herb >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 -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.