Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve Being an old rangefinder man myself, I saw no smiley and thought the writer was bonkers. :-) BTW, there was a LSM camera that did have a brighter viewing image with a large aperture lens; the British Periflex, but it was not strictly speaking, a rangefinder camera. The Guinness company owned Periflex (I'll drink to that!) Jerry Steve Unsworth wrote: > Jerry, it was a joke. That's why there was a smiley at the end of Dan's > post. It's an old rangefinder gag. > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Jerry Lehrer > Sent: 09 August 2003 19:27 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Noctilux and .72 > > Dan > > Why should the aperture of a lens affect the brightness of an M viewfinder > image? Only a SLR, never a RF camera. > > Jerry > > -- > 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