Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/17

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Subject: [Leica] So most rumours came true?
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:17:42 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Aram Langhans wrote:

>Still not acceptable or me.  Live View is nice in some ways, but SLOW.  I 
>wonder how that will work on a rangefinder type camera.  On a DSLR, when 
>you 
>press the release, the focus is locked, the shutter closes, turning off the 
>live view, then the shutter opens to take the exposure.  Talk about shutter 
>lag.  I imagine it will be similar on a rangefinder camera only w/o the 
>focus delay.

Or the exposure can be started electronically as the S2 does when using the 
central shutter.

>And of course, I will have to hold the camera at arms length and wear my 
>glasses.

Unless you use the add-on EVF.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com