Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/30

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Subject: SLR viewfinders (was: Re: [Leica] M42x1-Canon EOS adapter ...)
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Wed Aug 30 17:51:30 2006

Or to paraphrase that great cultural icon, Homer.
 mmmmmmmm caaaameras aaaaahhh 8^b__

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Scott McLoughlin
Sent: Thursday, 31 August 2006 09:29
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: SLR viewfinders (was: Re: [Leica] M42x1-Canon EOS adapter ...)

"M u s t  r e s i s t - n o   m o r e   c a m e r a s"  :-)

Man this just rejuvenates the whole SL jones you gave
me during the macro photography discussion several
months back. 

Scott

telyt@earthlink.net wrote:

>G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>Up until now, I'd always thought that my MF Nikons (FE2 F2, F3 etc
>etc)were great finders vs all of the AF SLRs I've looked through. That is
with proper pentaprisms and the split image (which is what I used the most).
I guess that's still valid, however you've explained that the SL & SL2 are
much better again. Why doesn't that surprise me?
 
>Yup... I thought my Nikon FTn with E screen had a great viewfinder... and
>it is... but the SL and SL2 are leaps and bounds ahead in terms of clarity
>and ease of focus.
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>



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