Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, You stated my thoughts on this much more eloquently than I could. Since I started using Leica Ms in 1998, every other viewfinder I have ever looked through has seemed vastly inferior. Nathan John Collier wrote: > > If they make one I WILL buy one! > > I do not care much about Leica per-ca. I love the viewfinder: that > wonderful window on my world. Only Leica makes one in a package I like. > My complaint with current digital cameras is not the capture nor the > controls, it is the viewfinder! Horrible, squinty, blurry, nasty things > not even remotely as clear as an M finder. > > So use the LCD display, I am told. No way! I switched to M cameras > because there is nothing between me and the world. I do not want to > look at a camera, I want to look at the world! If I didn't mind > something in the way I would still have an SLR. Heck, often I just lift > up the camera and shoot. I have already set the focus and exposure and > I just click the shutter when it is time. I want nothing else to get in > my way. > > John Collier > > On Feb 8, 2004, at 12:52 PM, Patrick Jelliffe wrote: > > > You're such an optimist, John. Can't we all dream a > > little? > > > > Patrick > > > > > > > > --- John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca> wrote: > >> Deciding to do something is not the same as a thing > >> being done. > >> > >> Both Canon and Nikon, with considerably more > >> resources at their > >> disposal, are redesigning their wide angle lenses to > >> suit current > >> digital sensors. > >> > >> A smaller sensor with its inherent magnification > >> factor is very easily > >> incorporated into a body with an M finder. You just > >> adjust the > >> framelines to suit. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html