I've owned and used a number of rangefinders over the years, from moderately expensive and small (Leica CL) to less expensive and smaller (Minolta HiMatic E) to large and bulky (Yashica Electro 35). Never had a problem with parallax error although the CL's frame moves to compensate as you focus and quite frankly, what I used these cameras for didn't require such precise framing.
I cannot, however, imagine a problem as bad as Dario's friend has that wouldn't indicate a camera problem. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Cotty <[email protected]> Sent: December 19, 2011 12/19/11 To: pentax list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: OT - Photographic Oasis On 19/12/11, Dario Bonazza, discombobulated, unleashed: >but he told me that >the image you see in the viewfinder and the picture you get are so apart and >unpredictable that you could well point the camera by eye, without even >looking into the OVF, and get the same precision in framing. I would suggest there was a problem with his actual example rather than a design fault - this is the first I have seen of this anywhere! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
