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Subject: [OM] Re: Solution for all those new digicams
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:41:22 -0800
I thought it was silly enough to be amusing.



Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA




On Jan 8, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:

>
> Hmmm - can't see the point myself - how is it going to match the
> zoom? That looks like one of the Sun/Yashica finders for use with
> auxilliary wide and tele lenses and I'd be surprised if the two
> brightlines are any kind of match for the ends of the zoom range.
> They only gave about 0.7x wider and 1.4x longer, hardly adequate for
> representing a 3x zoom.
> Of course, this is the approach taken with my new Ricoh GR Digital,
> but that has a prime 28mm equivalent lens and a 21mm adapter with the
> two corresponding brightlines in the little Voigtlander style finder
> (a Leica friend was impressed with the finder and may get one for use
> with his M7).
> Frankly, I think one of the advantages of digicams is that you can
> preview whatever the lens sees - and whatever games you play with
> adapters, you can see what you get. I have the view but feel much
> more comfortable 'chimping'.
> AndrewF
>
>
> Of course, this is the
> On 09/01/2006, at 5:15 AM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
>> http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp? 
>> forum=1012&message=16563279
>>
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