Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/16

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Subject: [Leica] voigtlander 25mm comments
From: Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:03:58 +0100

>	Hi Johnny
>	I think the cutting off the top of the frame is a closeup parallax
>thing. The one shortcoming of the Voightlander viewfinders is no parallax
>marks. Closeup the coverage of the viewfinder gets more and more marginal
>and the top few percent of the image seen in the viewfinder won't be in the
>pic. Small price to pay for the quality and cheapness of non reflex super
>wides IMHO.
>	cheers after weeks off the LUG
>	Frank

actually, only the 15 and 25 viewfinders have no brightlines and no
parallax correction marks. the others (28, 35, 50, 75) do.

guy