Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fixed is pretty easy either frames or projected, it starts getting more complicated mechanically and optically when you want to move things. On 11 Apr 2004, at 18:44, Karen Nakamura wrote: >> That is so Karen, I have a G2 which I like a lot but the viewfinder >> is not a patch on the M type IMHO. The G2 has a crude moving corner >> to black out a side of the 'finder for parallax correction. Zoom >> framelines would require a conceptual redesign of the viewfinder, >> very expensive maybe not even feasible. > > > Well, Canon has LED projected focus indicators on their EOS SLRs, so > I can't see why you can't have LED projected zoom framelines in a > M-style rangefinder. Leica already has the technology to project the > exposure indicator, so it's just a small stretch to project four > corners of a frameline that moves. This would allow for true parallax > compensation and field size change. > > What I like about the Leica M series is that I'm seeing the world, not > the world projected onto a frosty piece of glass, or worse, on a small > TV screen. > > Karen > > > -- > Karen Nakamura > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >