Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Did Leica miss the boat on the M7 viewfinder?
From: Mark Cohen <markc@binaryfaith.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 17:19:54 -0800 (PST)

Javier,

I find it interesting that you claim the M system to be near useless. How
can a viewfinder make a system useless or near useless? Why would a 300m
f2.8 lens make a near useless sytem less useless?

I for one find the M system to be many times more usefull than any other
camera.

For what its worth, I shoot or have shot a very wide variety of cameras.
From process cameras in printing to digital cameras. (16x20, 8x10, 4x5,
Hasselblad 500c, Mamiya RB/RZ 67, Rollei 35, Leica M sytem and R system,
Pentax 6x7, Pentax K1000, and Holga/Diana cameras.

Im sorry you think the M system isn't a usefull system, maybe some day you
will figure out how to use it. ;)

- -Mark



On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Javier Perez wrote:

> Hi
> A zoom viewfinder is something they should offer as an
> option for those who need it. If they don't offer it,
> it's because they are stupid. A zoom VF would open the
> near useless M system to a whole new range of fast
> long lenses. Taking it to an extreme they could corner
> the largely non existent high speed telephoto RF
> market. I'm certain an RF small enough to fit on top
> of a camera chassis that can focus a 300 2.8 more
> accurately than TTL is doable.
> Javier
>
>
> --- Mark Cohen <markc@binaryfaith.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. Zoom lenses don't compare to fixed focal length
> > lenses for sharpness.
> > Why would leica want to reduce the quality of their
> > M line?
> > 2. The viewfinder in the M series has always been
> > the way it is because a
> > ajor selling point for the M was the ability to see
> > more information in
> > the frame so that you could compose intelligently. A
> > zoom finder would
> > degrade that ability.
> > 3. If you want a zoom finder in a rangefinder, why
> > not get a Contax G2?
> >
> > It would be a quantum leap for leica to do what you
> > suggested, a leap
> > _backwards_
> >
> > -Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, jfrankel wrote:
> >
> > > From what I can tell, Leica did not use a zoom
> > view finder on the new M7.
> > > Was this a mistake?
> > > Could they have ushered in a new generation of M
> > zoom lenses?
> > > Could they have made a zoom viewfinder that would
> > have been backwards
> > > compatible with existing lenses?
> > > It seems to me that a new M number would be a good
> > time to take this quantum
> > > leap.
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
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