Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jem & all! Yep, there are alternatives that do not require much space. And one oth= er topic was electronic shutters. I remember - now - that there actually i= s one more type of electronic shutter besides the metal ones made by Seik= o and Copal - namely the one cloth type made by Minolta. It is still in production for manual Minolta SLRs and I think that it is closely relat= ed to Leica-type shutters. And Minolta managed to squeeze this shutter int= o a camera not much smaller than M-type Leica - the Minolta CLE. Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen my=F6s suomeksi >=20 > Following up on our interesting chat with Leica, we talked at some st= age=20 =20 > about alternative viewfinding systems for the M cameras and though th= ey =20 > recounted non-productive experiments with zoom finders (not enough ro= om =20 > for the moving elements) it was suggested by one of us (sorry, I forg= et =20 > who) that they contemplate the (1950s) Canon solution of a rotating p= rism =20 > offering different degrees of magnification which are dialed in by th= e =20 > photographer. > Leica admitted that they were unaware of this and would be interested= in=20 =20 > exploring it, so yesterday I packaged off my old Vt for Burkard Kiese= l to =20 > examine. In my wildest dreams it might arrive back looking better tha= n when it left =20 > me and provide, perhaps, an interesting solution to the problems of u= sing =20 > multiple lenses through a single magnification viewfinder. >=20 > Jem =20