Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. - --=_D0828E46.A9C8A14A Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline To all; As Ted Grant stated, clearly the R8 has an extremely bright viewfinder. significantly better than the R7 (I use them both.) As a side note though, my SL-2 appears to be as bright as the R8. Interesting you say! Well, I have set all three of these cameras up on a tripod and using the same lens and moving it from body to body, and tried to measure the light intensity at the viewfinder with a external Pentax spot meter. Granted, this is sort of a crude test. The conclusion that I came to was that there is less than a 1/2 EV difference between the 3 fundamentally different cameras. I don't have a clue why the SL-2 and the R8 appear so bright or why the R7 appears less bright. Regards Dave Stedman Kirkland, WA - --=_D0828E46.A9C8A14A Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: by atl.com (4.1/3.1.090690-) id AA29788; Thu, 24 Apr 97 22:32:26 PDT Received: from smtp2.nwnexus.com by mail1.halcyon.com (5.65v3.2/1.1.10.5/10Nov96-0444PM) id AA28901; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 22:32:54 -0700 Received: from mejac.palo-alto.ca.us by smtp2.nwnexus.com with SMTP id AA00168 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <dstedm@halcyon.com>); Thu, 24 Apr 1997 22:32:23 -0700 Received: by mejac.palo-alto.ca.us id AA19579; Thu, 24 Apr 97 21:46:25 -0700 Received: by mejac.palo-alto.ca.us id AA19573; Thu, 24 Apr 97 21:46:21 -0700 Received: by arl-img-7.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id AAA25784; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 00:46:20 -0400 Message-Id: <970425043534_75501.3002_GHJ41-1@CompuServe.COM> Sender: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Precedence: bulk Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 21:35:34 -0700 >From: Ted Grant <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> To: 75501.3002@CompuServe.COM, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: Shattered Reputation? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline <<<<Does the R8 only allow film to be loaded with the auto loader, or is there a way to do positive manual leader feed, like on the R7? >>>>> Hi Donal, It just loads as the auto loading in most other cameras, lay the film down to the little red line, close the back and away you go after a couple of frames advance to 1 or 2. No it sure doesn't load like the R7. And I understand Leica got rid of that type of loading as too many nood-nicks couldn't make it work, yet it was a piece of cake and in your situation of the heli down draft it would be perfect. <<<<<What makes the R8 finder SSSOOOOOOOO BRIGHT????? What controls finder brightness beyond the speed of the attached lens?>>>>>> Technically I don't have a clue, but what I'm experiencing with using the R7 and the R8 at the same time is, you really are blind in the R7 compared to what you see in the viewfinder of the R8. Maybe I'm misreading your post a bit, as I'm referring to the information bar across the bottom of the viewfinder and not just what you see in the image of that being photographed. The R8 is brighter without question against the R7 in the image you are looking at to photograph. And we did a test with a brand new Canon EOS1n and the R8 and with identical apeture lenses and the R8 was hands down on the Canon for brightness. Hope that helps. ted - --=_D0828E46.A9C8A14A--