Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/28

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Subject: [Leica] New Leica varifinder even bulkier
From: rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Thu Sep 28 03:36:58 2006
References: <20060928091955.90933.qmail@web36614.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20060928113239.02d31cb0@screengang.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20060928114616.0307ee40@screengang.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20060928115520.030510f0@screengang.com> <451BA18C.7010501@hemenway.com>

Jim

This finder covers all possible field of views of the new Tri Elmar lens on 
fullframe cameras and the M8 with it's crop factor. So it's a 16-18-21-24-28 
multifinder. It has parallax correction but is not coupled with the camera, 
thus the change of field of view has to be done manually. 

Didier





>I'm an SL and R8 user and have not ever been very interested in, or know 
>much about the Leica RF cameras, so I'm wondering... why is this viewfinder 
>needed?
>Is it related to the lens?
>Thanks,
>Jim



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