Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/28

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Subject: [Leica] Playing with the RD 1 in Hong Kong
From: joseph at yao.com (Joseph Yao)
Date: Wed Jul 28 06:46:21 2004
 
I would like to add the finder is a 1.0x design, as opposed to the 0.6x of
the Bessa R2.

The eyepiece design R-D1 is a circular one (the Bessa R2 has a rectangular
design) and appears to accept diopters from the Nikon FM2/3 cameras.

Joseph


on 7/28/04 9:22 PM, Howard Cummer at cummer@netvigator.com wrote:

> 2.) The viewfinder is less bright than the Bessa R2 but fully functional 
> with
> a clearly delineated focusing patch. Given the limited rangefinder base of 
> the
> viewfinder, precise focusing is difficult with the fastest lenses but still
> pretty good. We were all rangefinder users and didn't have that much 
> problem
> getting accurately focused pictures  except perhaps with the Noctilux.
In reply to: Message from cummer at netvigator.com (Howard Cummer) ([Leica] Playing with the RD 1 in Hong Kong)