Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Feb 1, 2007, at 1:01 PM, lucien_vd@mac.com wrote: > Steve Barbour wrote : > >> also the viewfinder on the M8 is 0.68... so the longer lens takes >> a tiny fraction of the viewfinder... > > > Steve, > > This is not correct, if you mean by this that the the M8 0,68 is > showing a wider field than the M7 0,72. > > Here is what I wrote previously about it: > -- > Although the viewfinder of the M8 has a 0,68 magnification while in > the normal M7/MP it is a 0,72, the finder of the M8 shows a > narrower field. You have to compare the viewfinders to see it. > > That's why the widest frames in the M8's viewfinder are showing the > field of a 32mm (24mm X 1,33) while in the viewfinder of the M7, > it's the field of the 28mm. > > This may seems illogical, because on the other Leica M, the lower > the magnification, the wider the field's coverage. > > The reason is that the top cover of the M8 being deeper, the > viewfinder is also +/- 3mm deeper, while both the M8 and M7's front > windows have the same width. The field is therefore narrower on the > M8. > > If the viewfinder of the M8 had been a 0,72, the field covered > would have been even narrower, maybe equivalent to the 37mm (28mm X > 1,33). > -- > > Because of that, the size of the 75mm's frames (equivalent 100mm) > in the M8 viewfinder is very close to the size of the 90mm frames > in the M7. that's very interesting Lucien... thank you... Steve > > Lucien > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information