[Leica] for those interested in future Leica developments

[frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)]

The camera would need to know the precise focal length of the mounted lens, 
plausible for coded lenses, not any others, causing the normal wingeing from 
the usual suspects who own non-Leica lenses.
The precise FL of production lenses is close to but not exactly the nominal, 
as a rule. This would mean, potentially, a different set of framelines for 
each 35mm lens design, each 50mm lens design and so forth...
The magnification change with focus would need to be known for each lens, 
not so easy with lenses with floating elements.
The people who design these things are not stupid and if anything as obvious 
as precise frame lines was straightforward we would have had it for some 
time now.

If you want accurate framing you will need a reflex camera or look at the 
sensor output either via the screen on the back or an EVF, whether you like 
it or not!

FD



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> From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
>Sent: Saturday, 16 November 2013, 19:58
>Subject: Re: [Leica] for those interested in future Leica developments
> 
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>I don't like EVF (for now). As for thinking it through, that's what the
>camera designer gets paid to do right? Anyway, the framelines don't move
>unless the focus is changed, and pretty drastically at that. I would be
>happy if they have 3-4 set of framelines with different sizes and positions
>depending on the focus distance and the lens. They can get a good focus
>distance estimate by using contrast detection off the sensor.
>On Nov 16, 2013 6:09 AM, "FRANK DERNIE" <frank.dernie at btinternet.com> 
>wrote:
>
>> You really need to think that through...
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