[LRflex] Re: Photokina and other disasters...
- From: "Chris Birchenhall" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:20:19 +0100
Doug
Thanks for that informative response. To summarize: the greater the level of
automation the more difficult it is to make an economically viable, high
quality screen? Guess one of the questions we should be asking is how much
we area willing to pay for that quality? Not an unfamiliar question to Leica
users?
Chris
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Chris Birchenhall <chris@tarsier=2Efreeserve=2Eco=2Euk>
> The question is: does your statement hold for the R8/R9
No=2E
> and is it likely to hold for the R10 or whatever comes next=3F
I have no inside info, so I don't know=2E
> If not then focus confirmation may on occasion be useful and if
> it unobtrusive it can be ignored
The presence of focus confirmation requires that it compromise viewfinder
quality therefore it cannot be unobtrusive; the viewfinder is compromised
100% of the time for the sake of the few times electronic focus
confirmation would be useful=2E
> At the same time I have to ask if Leica could come up with such a fine
> screen in the SL2 why was this feature not replicated in subsequent mode=
ls
It's an expensive viewfinder to make=2E Recall that Leitz (or so the stor=
y
goes) lost money on each SL2 it made=2E The benefit of the R3 to Leitz wa=
s
that it cost less to make and its AE feature was more marketable than the
SL2's magnificent viewfinder and build quality=2E
> and why has it not been surpassed by other manufacturers=3F=20
Other manufacturers build to a price point much more than Leica does=2E
It's an expensive viewfinder to make=2E Ideally I'd like to see an
SL/SL2-quality viewfinder with built-in diopter correction=2E
Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www=2Ewildlightphoto=2Ecom
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