Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html