This is my last Leica word in this thread (unless poked with a sharp stick).
Yes, the Noctilux blocks a lot of the VF, I'd estimate about 30%. It's the
price you pay.....
I know many of M7 users who actually USE their cameras....A LOT. It's
fabulous tool for the dedicated M rangefinder shooter to be freed from
constant recalculation of exposure in changing lighting conditions. Yea,
it's the same basic technology that was used in the OM-2 back in 1978. So
Leica's 24 years behind, what else is new?
I have an M3 too, which is a great tool, but it's not an M7, nor is an M7
an M3.
I'm ashamed that the Leica community has become the pervue of the radical,
stuck-up, cultish, old-snobby-men, clubby people that now poke their head
out. And it's a shame that Leica has decided that it has to survive by
prostituting themselves, creating whatever special edition of their
products someone is willing to pay for. OTOH, they still make a superior
product that is superbly designed for a small number of photographic tasks.
And they still make some of the best lenses in the world. And the
dedicated photographers who use M cameras still find them very effective
tools and unlike anything else.
So I decided to invest in the Leica M system and it works well for me. I
also decided in 1974 to invest in the fledgling Olympus OM-1 and it's
innovative OM-System. Both systems serve me well for different purposes.
Skip
Original Message:
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From: Julian Davies julian_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:26:17 -0000
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OT] L*I*A - Was [OM] Zuiko 50/ vs Noctilux again
The points he makes about the noctilux are pretty much inherent in all large
aperture lenses. I wonder what he thouht he was getting (as opposed to what
he wrote in its favour)
BTW is it this one which obscures a fair portion of the viewfinder field -
of - view?
Julian
Cambs, UK
The above statements are inaccurate (at best)
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