The the clue you left out. "Professional." Kind of a Fuji trade mark.
The Leica is a multi lens camera with focal lengths from 28 to 135mm
that make a direct connection to the rangefinder. You need a long base
rangefinder with a long lens. The base is longer on the Mamiya 7 than
than the one that appears in your Fuji picture and it pretty well poops
out before 150mm. Some complaints about focus errors with that lens.
The Fuji 6x9s are fixed focal length cameras all of the wide angle
variety. The rangefinder base does not have to be as long, nor are
slight focus errors as critical with wide angle and super wide angle
lenses. They are big. When I was thinking about a medium format camera
I looked and handled a lot of them at the local "camera show". swapmeet
thingy. I remember being shocked at how big and heavy the Fujis were. I
thought the Mamiya was a much friendlier camera that way although
probably not as indestructible.
Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
On Aug 21, 2004, at 12:42 PM, Siddiq wrote:
>
> Aaaah, there we go; it's this one:
>
> http://www.dantestella.com/technical/iiiseries.jpg
>
> recognizable from the gold colored "Professional" smack in the center.
>
> curious those, the RF seperation isn't all that much (by that I mean
> like
> a leica, where the viewfinder is on the far left (camera held to eye)
> and
> the other window is on the other side of the lens.. this has it side by
> side. i think it is called the base length? woudlnt focus be more
> critical
> on a larger format? and it is quite a large camera!
==============================================
List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com
List nannies: olympusadmin@xxxxxxxxxx
==============================================
|
