Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How very true, Over the last couple of months I picked up quite a few Non-AF cameras at rock-bottom prices to play around with - a couple of Canon A1s, a Pentax MX, an OM-10 and a Yashica FX-D - all of them have viewfinders much brighter the ones in my Canon EOS 500N and 20D. But the brightest of all is the flip-up, waist level finder on the Rollei 2000F or 3003 (sorry Doug it really is brighter than the SL or SL2 and the rest of the Leica R series), probably because there's no prism in the way. Of course, in true Rollei manner the view is wrong way round, which takes some getting used to, but with the little built in magnifier it's just amazing. On the other hand, the "telescope VF" alternative on the same camera is probably one of the dimmest of all. Cheers Douglas On 10.03.2010 19:46, Jan Decher wrote: > Very true, Doug. > I picked up some pre-AF Minolta X700 at my camera store the other day > and was amazed about the brightness and size of the VF and the ease of > manual focus with the Minolta screen. Makes me want to get a Leica Rx > Jan > > On 10 Mar 2010, at 11:08, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote: >> It was AF that killed viewfinder quality, not digital. >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >