Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/17

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Pros, Leicas, and losing market share.
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:13:41 -0800

Marc,

Why must you be right and I wrong!  You see 100%, great but at a lower
magnification.
I see 94% at the proper magnification.  Personally, I see nothing wrong with
a larger and as you say clunky box.  To each his own.

Peter K.


- -----Original Message-----
From: Marc James Small [mailto:msmall@roanoke.infi.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 6:00 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Pros, Leicas, and losing market share.


At 04:41 PM 11/16/1999 -0800, Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) wrote:
>If you use a 135mm on an SLR you will see the image
>as it will appear on the film, with an M you see only what appears in the
>little frame.  Much different.  Hence, my premise is right!

No, your premise remains totally wrong.

First, a 135mm on any of my Leica M's or LTM's allows me to view the ENTIRE
field including action which is beyond the range of the FOV.   With ALMOST
all (99.9%) of SLR's, you see 85% or 90% of a restricted -- but magnified
- -- field.  Big deal.  Give me the RF.

Second, for the all of it, with an SLR, you STILL have a large, clunky,
noisy box which will knock you down with mirror slap, and which, for me, at
any rate, remains a challenge to focus.  With an M or LTM camera, you have
a small, quiet, discrete camera which, unlike SLR's CAN be focused, and
focused easily.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
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