Re: From the mind of a mentally-challenged P&Shooter

[David J Taylor]

"RichA" <rande...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> The M9 can be taken to dinner and you won't look like a dork? That is
> the rationale of the point & shooter, that a DSLR somehow makes people
> look odd and that (like pedophiles might do) people should only use
> cameras that are covert and small so no one knows what creepy things
> they are up to with them.
>
> The rest of the article is as mindless as can be. Rockwell is a kook,
> if he really believes what he says. The M9 is a moire making machine,
> nothing more.
>
> http://www.kenrockwell.com/leica/m9.htm

Rich - me thinks the article was rather tongue-in-cheek, and you missed
that!

BTW: this should be in: rec.photo.digital.rangefinder, not spread out over
the other groups. Follow-ups set.

David

[Dave Cohen]

I'm not clear how the viewing system handles various focal length
lenses. He talks about 'frames' without going into much detail. No doubt
this is something present in earlier models but that doesn't help me much.

[David J Taylor]

"Dave Cohen" <us...@example.net> wrote in message
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> I'm not clear how the viewing system handles various focal length
> lenses. He talks about 'frames' without going into much detail. No doubt
> this is something present in earlier models but that doesn't help me
> much.

The answer is, Dave, that the viewing system is fixed, and doesn't handle
different FL lenses except by a series of crop marks in the finder:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AOI70qcywkoC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=leica+viewfinder+frames&source=bl&ots=O4tQk5FAz-&sig=-2dlzqVgphKSy3lVu-MphKS6kkQ&hl=en&ei=c6zUSsHLBZCu4QbwqJzRDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCwQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=leica%20viewfinder%20frames&f=false

You can get add-on viewfinders, though:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/21-24-38vf.shtml

Cheers,
David

[Miles Bader]

"David J Taylor"

<david-...@blueyonder.not-this-part.nor-this.co.uk.invalid> writes:
>> The rest of the article is as mindless as can be. Rockwell is a kook,
>> if he really believes what he says. The M9 is a moire making machine,
>> nothing more.
>>
>> http://www.kenrockwell.com/leica/m9.htm
>
> Rich - me thinks the article was rather tongue-in-cheek, and you missed
> that!

Hmm, tho from what I hear (from friends), Ken Rockwell _is_ a bit of a
bit of a kook (and insanely full of himself), just generally.

I read the above article, and it's certainly not obvious that it's
tongue-in-cheek. It was kind of painful to read actually...

It's certainly a pretty camera tho.

-Miles

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