Leica M viewfinder

[rustysheepdog]

Back in the late 1960s, Konica made a fixed-lens 35mm crf model called the Auto S2. It had a bright-line frame finder which not only had parallax correction but also varied the frame coverage area as you focused - maybe when Leica Camera gets round to the M10 they'll provide something simliar. If their new S2 doesn't finally bankrupt them ...

[Spyderman]

Just imagine how complicated it would be to make 6 sets of framelines adjust in size, while each focal length coverage changes by a different amount (think different extension when focussing).

[Erik van Straten]

If only they put in the M10 frames with the same precision as those of the M2 I'd be very happy.

Erik.

[Roger Hicks]

Not exactly. Konicas had fixed lower + left lines and moving upper + right lines, thereby providing some correction for decrease in field of view. If you want true correction for both parallax and field of view you need a MUCH bigger and mechanically more complicated finder than you can fit into 35mm (e.g. Linhof).

Tashi delek,

R.

[rustysheepdog]

Not exactly. Konicas had fixed lower + left lines and moving upper + right lines, thereby providing some correction for decrease in field of view.
R.

Ah! I had forgotten that - but it was still a good effort on Konica's part. Although after all these years I'm not sure how well it actually worked.