Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another two features, suggested by John Lee: - high eyepoint viewfinder for glasses wearers - builtin diopter Both have been done already so again, it's a matter of collecting the state of the art and implementing them together. The M10 is likely to be larger than the M9, so may be there will be a resurgence on used M9 sales :-) On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:05 AM, 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> > > > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>