Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Dear Fellow LUGnuts, > >As an experienced user of M Leicas and admittedly a new user of a Leicaflex >SL, I have a problem with the Leicaflex. Everytime I take a picture, the >viewfinder goes blank for just a split second then as if by magic the image >reappears. It is just like the effect when someone takes a picture on TV >and the viewer is looking through the camera. You never get to see the >exact picture you took. > >I think I'll check my Leica catalogue to see if they sell a 50mm external >viewer I can slide on the hot shoe. Then I can focus through the lens and >meter and then shift my view through the external viewfinder so that the >image won't go blank when I take the picture. > >I wonder why Leica didn't think of this? The relfex camera design is only >a poor imitation of the rangefinder ;-) > >Richard >---------------------------- Richard, the 50mm Bright-line accessory finder (disctd.) would solve your "blinking" problem. Sometimes for sports I attach an old 135mm finder unto my SL2 after pre-focusing (Leica thread!) My swedish 120 box-camera Hassle-Blood 500 SLR does not have the viewfinder-blink; it's very ingenious: If the open waistlevel shows the image, I can take the picture, after it turns pitch-black, I know I have taken the pix and the bang of the mirror gives me an audible signal, that it happened. Those small M Leicas clicking so softly make it difficult to hear that; no wonder people- subjects pay no attention to the photographer. That can be murder for your ego! That red Leica Logo is far to small IMHO, only Pro-Thieves tend never to miss it. Regards to a LUGnut -otto- otto w. rath, 504-633, northcliffe blvd. toronto on. M6E 3M3 canada (416) 783 5128