Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/08

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Subject: [Leica] clever
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Mon Nov 8 15:47:56 2004
 
Feli di Giorgio <feli@creocollective.com> wrote:

> http://www.dpreview.com/articles/olympuse300/
>
> Here is a very clever mirror arrangement. I wonder how big the light loss 
> is
> from bouncing around so may times. But still- very clever.

Is this at all like the viewfinder path in the Olympus Pen half-frame 
cameras?  If this is done with mirrors I'd expect light losses to be similar 
to a pentamirror like some of the consumer-grade N and C DSLR cameras.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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