Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Speculating on an ideal optical rangefinder system (i.e. something that retains the Leica M DNA and yet improves on the 1950 state of the art M3), what if a rangefinder has the following features: - LED projected framelines. This removes the clutter, solves the visibility issue, and - changeable rangefinder magnification - what if the rangefinder has 0.58x to 1.2x mag builtin (may be in 4 steps: 0.58x, 0.72x, 0.9x and 1.2x or something similar)? This would allow more precise focusing from the wide to tele. This will leverage the existing frame line trigger and 6 bit coding system of course so this would be automatic - parallax adjustment based on focusing distance We know LED framelines can be done. The M9 Titanium has it. The XPan has 2 magnifications: one for the 45mm lens and one for the 90mm lens. I have no idea how difficult it is to insert multiple mag piece as needed. Anyone knows? The cam position should also give good indication of the focusing distance too, along with the lens info, so #3 is technically feasible too. Chances are Leica nor anyone else would really spend the resource to develop something like these, since a CMOS/Liveview is so much "simpler," but would it be nice to have such a system? -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>