Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 8/17/06 11:12 PM, "Scott McLoughlin" <scott@adrenaline.com> typed: > I see these cool, precision, industrial strength cameras (like > the Alpas too), and I wonder why they don't seem (correct > me if I'm wrong) to incorporate a rangefinder for focusing? > Particularly at the prices these things are likely to cost. > > Why not? It's a well known, many decades old technology > by now. Graflex's had RF's, didn't they? Hey, my pretty > cheapo Canonet 28 I beat up as a kid had a RF. I don't > get it. > > Scott > > Mark Rabiner wrote: > My Voigtl?nder Vito BL does not have a rangefinder. It has guess-to-matic. Nor does my Rollei 35. Or Bessa L with 25mm snapshot lens which wont focus on a Barnack. Don't need no stinking rangefinder. Why do you think they call the Leica historical society magazine "the viewfinder"? :) Mark Rabiner L.S.M.F.T. Bethpage, Long Island, NY 11710 40?44'48" N 73?29'4" W