Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: ditching the R (WAS: Elmarit 90 R/Reflections)
From: chefurka@magma.ca (Paul Chefurka)
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 00:28:33 GMT

On Wed, 02 Dec 1998 17:08:53 -0500, you wrote:

> One thing that
>just occurred to me would be that since parallax error is a big
>problem with RF's they could think up something that would minimize
>or get rid of this totally, perhaps they could silver the front of
>the shutter and put a little fiber optic bundle beside the TTL
>metering cell and then route this to something in the finder, or
>something like that. 

You know, along this line, I've always wondered why they don't just
put a little mirror in front of the shutter, then have it just flip up
out of the way when you push the shutter rel...

<Pardon?>
<....>
<Oh.  Never mind...>