Ok, as promised, I continue from where I was left off:
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Fortunately, Mr. Putts has provided us with a very nice article regarding rangefinders:
Accuracy is some 1.5% up to 10m and raises after that, provided you aim @ thin lines (vernier acuity). Therefore, provided that lens used are accurately set (no focusing errors), all that's needed is actually the correlation of %error with horizontal movement of the lens for focusing, and how this is affected for different types of lenses. Unfortunately this correlation is not given by this excellent article from Putts.
I am very happy with how this simple optic system works, and I am almost certain that 50 years of heritage guarantee that the system works great with lenses upto 90mm as Leica suggests, but I would really like to know what it actually means to operate within this error and how this is related to output.
I will begin a new post about this to avoid this thread's hijacking though, so we can continue this conversation...
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So here is my suggestion:
How about we try to answer this, it will be a great help to those (like me) that tries rangefinding for first time or are afraid to switch because of this. In the mean time this will help us find real life limits and ways to work a lot faster, instead of endless chasing of overlapping the split image