Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/16

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: Re: Discards
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 19:12:35 -0400

At 12:34 PM 16-08-97 -0800, Donal wrote:
[snip]

>So is it a trade off to shift light to the AF sensors?  Or a place where
>quality was sacrificed for economy.  I guess I would like to see a
>comparison of finder brightness measured with meter on all the common
>cameras.  Is Contax as bright as Leica?  It is a subject that I have
>never seen mentioned outside of circles such as this.  Why isn't this
>mentioned in the photo press.  Or are they too dim?

My 25 year old Nikon F2's viewfinder is much brighter than either my
Minolta 9000 or Minolta 9xi.  

Dan C.