Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Frank Filippone wrote: > #1) Lenses are rarely faster than F2.8 or even F4 these days.,..... > gone are > the days of the common F1.4-1.8-2 lenses... that is a lot of light to > inherently lose.... > Zooms are the worst.... F5.6?????? that is 16 times dimmer than an > F1.4 > lens... Focusing just plain harder with less light..... When I discuss VF brightness - I assume the same lens/aperture on different body/VF's - > #2) Probably lousy Screens..... I swear the a few bucks spent for a > new > screen would make a lot of these new cameras easier to manually > focus.....but the AF lenses negate the secondary market demand for > such > needs..... Certainly a significant part of the VF system. I've replaced the screen on my 5D to achieve maximum brightness. It still does not come anywhere close to the brightness of any screen in the R8. > #3) Our eyes..... Anyone over 40 out there? Our eyes need more > light to get > the contrast so we can actually see something.... Optometrists, and > Ophthalmologists are welcome to pipe in.... Quite true - that the old eyes do not perform as well as the young eyes. Yet, VF brightness remains a measurable, verifiable, objective reality; not a variable function of the condition of the eyes. > #4) Our memories.... I am not so sure that we can judge brightness > given #2 > above plus our memories over the past 20-40 years..... In my case - the various systems have always overlapped one another. By this I mean that I had Nikon F's and Leica R3's and an R8 at the same time. Observations were not based on memories; but actual real time comparisons. The rest were sold because none could compare with the R8. Likewise I compared the R8 directly to the dismal 10D and 20D as well as the currently still owned 5D which can take all the R glass for comparison. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist