Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/17

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Subject: [Leica] Focusing screens
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Wed Dec 17 10:57:31 2008
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Old school = what you see is what you may get
New school = what you get may be even better than what you saw.

The R9.2 Diesel should reconcile this, to the better half of each stance.
Hopefully
Phx


wildlightphoto@earthlink.net wrote:

>Philip Forrest wrote:
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>>why is it that we have to spend over $2000 to get ACCURATE
>>MANUAL FOCUS aids!? On a camera which doesn't have an expected lifespan
>>past 3 years of use. This is sickening.
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>Unfortunately you're not the target market.
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>>This means that by virtue of the fact that I know manual focus exists
>>and desire to use it, the manufacturer has made up my mind and assumes
>>that I make enough money to be able to afford one of their flagship
>>cameras. Hardly. I just like control and I like to manually focus my
>>cameras. 
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>I believe the problem is that the majority of consumers of the more
>affordable cameras are ignorant of the virtues of manual focus, or are
>unaware that anything better exists.  These consumers are voting with their
>currency and the manufacturers are listening.  Features per dollar is their
>mantra and viewfinder quality is difficult to quantify.
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>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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