Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As I understand it the large sensors as used in DSLRs and the M8 and Epson RD1 (which is a Cosina camera with Epson electronics) are one shot sensors, unlike the tiny sensors used in P&S cameras and camcorders which are live all the time. They are only active when the shutter is open. I have no idea why that is, perhaps to reduce heat??? Anyway, given this fact it would be far from easy to have the LCD live like a P&S digicam as another little digicam sensor with attendant optics would not get the correct field of view and the mechanism to get it all out of the way of the optical path to the main sensor to take the shot would add noise, delay, cost and weight. I imagine if it were technically feasible such a feature would have been included, even if many would not care one way or another. Frank On 10 Nov, 2006, at 23:00, Digiratidoc@aol.com wrote: > Can one use the LCD panel on the M8 while composing and focusing > like a P&S? > If so it would for the most part negate those objections some have > about > using a rangefinder, i.e. parallax error and limited use of long > lenses. If not, > Leica missed the boat on that one. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information