Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Someone wrote in the Leica customers forum, that older M cameras had a straight mirror for for brightline illumination, whereas the later models have a parabolic mirror. The parabolic mirror would shed more light towards the brightline mask, making the frames brighter,. However if light hits the parabolic mirror in a wrong angle, light is concentrated in the rangefinder patch! To me this sounds like a good explanation. Alex - -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html