Guest Posted September 5, 2009 Share #21 Posted September 5, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm not buying later:p So any positive info about the 24mm frame? Or is it Lust? The good old German word? Ist ja lustig! :) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 5, 2009 Posted September 5, 2009 Hi Guest, Take a look here I suppoe the top plate will be plastic. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
adan Posted September 5, 2009 Share #22 Posted September 5, 2009 Good question, tri. If Leica brings back the 135mm frame, you'd end up with 3 frames in view at once (24, 35, 135) That, plus the fact that the M8 only covered 24-cropped (= "32mm") probably means no 24-real frame. Back to the classic 6-frame set 28/90, 35/135, 50/75. Unless Leica is reducing the finder magnification even further, in which case they may stick with the M8 frameline set - which I doubt, but realistically it's one of those things that will just have to wait until Wednesday (or for a more comprehensive leak). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 5, 2009 Share #23 Posted September 5, 2009 Good question, tri. If Leica brings back the 135mm frame, you'd end up with 3 frames in view at once (24, 35, 135) That, plus the fact that the M8 only covered 24-cropped (= "32mm") probably means no 24-real frame. Back to the classic 6-frame set 28/90, 35/135, 50/75. Unless Leica is reducing the finder magnification even further, in which case they may stick with the M8 frameline set - which I doubt, but realistically it's one of those things that will just have to wait until Wednesday (or for a more comprehensive leak). Less than a year ago two out of the five newly anounced lenses were 24mm. Now THE new camera without a 24mm frame and no soon a la carte viewfinders anounced? Don't think Leica can afford to give their customers this bitter "rein in die Kartoffel - raus aus den Kartoffeln" sensation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosuna Posted September 5, 2009 Share #24 Posted September 5, 2009 There is time to think and decide about the color. You have one more year for discussing and reflect on it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 5, 2009 Author Share #25 Posted September 5, 2009 So any positive info about the 24mm frame? Or is it Lust? The good old German word? Ist ja lustig! :) Framelines, as I posted before, are to me only indicators. I tend to see the FOV of my lens before I raise the camera to my eye. There probably will be the edge of the VF, or if not I have a number of suitable viewfinders for the 24... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 5, 2009 Share #26 Posted September 5, 2009 The majority of the external Leica viefinders are less or more suitable. None match the importance and comfort of the built-in ACCURATE wiewfinder-rangefinder system. There were endles threads about this subject, untill the M8 ->M8.2 update solved this problem. Previsualising can be trained, but it has nothing to do with the viewfinder frames for a focal length, that is not classical Leica and that has been stongly promoted by the company for a year now. To abandon the ones who bought does not build trust. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted September 5, 2009 Share #27 Posted September 5, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Be realistic. A full frame 24 takes in a MUCH larger angle of view than one on a cropped sensor camera. So in order to have a FF camera with frame lines for 24 mm, the magnification will have to be decreased even more, so that 50mm or p-o-s-s-i-b-l-y 75mm will be the longest focal length accommodated. All longer lenses would have too tiny a frame. Is that what you want? The alternative would be a zooming finder. Leica must have thought of that a long time ago (there was a decent zooming accessory finder for the Nikon SP nearly half a century ago) but that would mean a large rear protrusion, and probably a lower quality finder image. Is that what you want? The old man from the Age of the M3 (35+50+90mm) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beamon Posted September 5, 2009 Share #28 Posted September 5, 2009 Different slant: Squarenegs - you had to bring that up, didn't you. Now we'll have Keith Olbermann or Bob Beckel or someone linking to this site to "prove" that U.S. health care reform should pay for sex worker's cosmetic surgery...."just like the Canadians!" Maybe the steel grey will be the perfect compromise and ultimately there'll be one finish only...nah! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevelap Posted September 5, 2009 Share #29 Posted September 5, 2009 the VF is: 0.68x, -0.5dpt, frame-lines 28-90/50-75/35-135. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
twittle Posted September 5, 2009 Share #30 Posted September 5, 2009 Or rather carbon fiber composite. It is the only reason I can think of for dropping the chrome finish, analog to the R9. And the Japanese site only mentions a brass base plate.Faster to construct and lighter. The English brochure says both top and bottom are brass, just in case you haven't read it by now. Page 11 of the PDF, page 21 of the actual brochure, under "Tough". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpattinson Posted September 5, 2009 Share #31 Posted September 5, 2009 There is time to think and decide about the color. You have one more year for discussing and reflect on it. quite a few words to eat... luckily you will have plenty of time after the 9'th Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeicaS2 Posted September 5, 2009 Share #32 Posted September 5, 2009 I like the steel color BTW. I reminds me of my old Titanium M6, without an upcharge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UliWer Posted September 5, 2009 Share #33 Posted September 5, 2009 The English brochure says both top and bottom are brass, just in case you haven't read it by now. Page 11 of the PDF, page 21 of the actual brochure, under "Tough". Read "bottom" as "baseplate". The chassis is magnesium alloy - as with the M8. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
twittle Posted September 5, 2009 Share #34 Posted September 5, 2009 Read "bottom" as "baseplate". The chassis is magnesium alloy - as with the M8. Of course. The chassis was not in question. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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