[Leica] Re: 2.8cm v. 28mm metal finder

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

>Wait. How can a finder perform? Simple tricks?
>
>

No. Fairly difficult ones. Sharp, bright, undistorted and crisp frame 
lines with a little bit outside the frame. Peformance like no others. 
They sing now, dancing will be introduced with v2.

With the Zeiss finders, the downsides are that they are quite large 
and cost a bunch. They are easily the best ones to look through 
though.

Overall I still like the plastic bodied Leica finders best, but the 
view through them is definitely not as good and the price is/was 
ridiculous. They are very low profile though in comparison with the 
Zeiss. The plastic bodied Leica finders have the same optics as the 
previous metal ones, but they stay on the camera better (and bounce 
better when dropped) so are cheaper in the long run.

I also like the little - tiny, actually - CV 28/35 finder, but it 
hardly competes optically with the better finders, and the frames 
aren't that accurate.

With the W-A Tri-Elmar I got the new multifinder, aka 
'Frankenfinder'. It's big, it's ugly, but it works. On the M8 it's 
nice because it has the 3 sets of framelines for the WATE, and also 
the framelines that show what the 12mm CV images on the sensor. So 
instead of 4 finders, I can carry one. Then the size doesn't seem as 
bad. The finder is bright and crisp, but it has a fair bit of 
distortion. The framelines are bent accordingly, so it's quite 
accurate, and even at the widest there's a fair bit of breathing room 
around the frames.




>----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hoppyman@msn.com>
>To: <lug@leica-users.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 3:20 PM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: 2.8cm v. 28mm metal finder
>
>
>>I just looked through a new Zeiss Ikon 21 finder next to a Leica 
>>(old) 21 and my CV metal 28. I have the Leica 21-24-28 as well. The 
>>ZI finder is trluy superb. Bright, sharp, undistorted, great 
>>framelines. Easily superior on performance to every other I have 
>>tried. It costs a LOT. An individual call on priorities and 
>>cashflow obviously.
>>  Cheers
>>  Hoppy
>>



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