Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/27

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Subject: Re: R 9 Suggestion
From: hmphoto <hmphoto@delphi.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 15:05:33 -0500

>The "R9 Stealth SLR" (as I will now call it ;-}) is a good idea; it could
>have a stationary pellicle mirror and a moving meter mirror and be only a
>little louder than the M6, as the RT is. The RT is quite a camera, and
>(apparently) a lot quieter than the EOS 1N RS.

I toyed with the idea of getting the 1nRS, but decided agianst it for 
several reasons.

1.  It was explained to me that the mirror has to be kept as clean as a 
lens surface.  I don't know about the rest of you, but the insides of my 
cameras tend to get very dusty just changing lenses.  They say you are 
supposed to send the camera in to have the mirror cleaned because it is 
so fragile-this is something I did not want to have to bother with.

2. You lose 2/3 of a stop of light.  Why have a 2.8 lens if the best you 
can get is nearly 4.0?

3.  It sounds like you can see through the camera the same as in a 
rangefinder, well if shooting wide open this may be true, but if stopped 
down you will see the entire field of view dim when the aperature cranks 
down.

Who needs 10 frames a second anyway, that is making movies-litterally.

I ended up getting my M6 and lenses.

Harrison McClary
hmphoto@delphi.com
http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto