Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/23

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica MP -- Yes, it's true!
From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@imagecraft.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 21:20:05 -0800
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At 10:19 PM 2/23/2003 -0600, Karen Nakamura wrote:


>>>  So let me see if I understand this.
>>>  After 47 years they still haven't been able to
>>>  incorporate a zoom vf and I'm suppossed to be excited?
>>
>>One of the advantages OF a rangefinder for me is being able to see more than
>>the framed image.
>
>Yes, but think how convenient it'd be if you could have a little switch on 
>the side of the camera marked 1.0x,  1.5x,  2.0x  and with that little 
>switch, the finder would switch magnifications. You could always stay in 
>the magnification level you wanted (0.5, 0.75, and 1.0) to optimize 
>between seeing "outside" the lines and RF accuracy.
>
>Imagine how .... groundbreaking that would be....  It would require 
>engineering of the highest degree and use of the most sophisticated 
>materials.    I bet even the best Japanese engineers couldn't have even 
>produced that .... 45 years ago.

Wow! Yes, that would be a nice invention.


// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> 
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