Nomad Z
Well-known
The Kindle-style electronic paper seems like a good way to make the mask, and couldn't automatic selection be done using the 6-bit coding that's already on the lenses? For preview, maybe a roller/jog wheel could be used to cycle back and forth amongst a subset of focal lengths that one chooses from the menu (whether presets or custom setups). The idea being that one chooses a subset that matches the lenses one is using.
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
An LCD would do it and would be small enough to fit.
DNG
Film Friendly
I think an LCD mask in place of the 3 masks would work.
The one mask would have one-piece LCD rectangles each for 25/28/35/40/50/75/85/90/100/135 and when a lens is mounted with a traditional claw/6bit code. it will allow the correct LCD frame to light up.. other lenses can use a menu driven selection process to be used
But. it may need to be a .63x VF... Or have 2 models.... A .60x for 25mm-75mm and and a .72x for 28mm-135mm
The one mask would have one-piece LCD rectangles each for 25/28/35/40/50/75/85/90/100/135 and when a lens is mounted with a traditional claw/6bit code. it will allow the correct LCD frame to light up.. other lenses can use a menu driven selection process to be used
But. it may need to be a .63x VF... Or have 2 models.... A .60x for 25mm-75mm and and a .72x for 28mm-135mm
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FrozenInTime
Well-known
It's been done before - the Ricoh GR1 series used LCD frame lines complete with LED backlight.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Fascinating. Presumably it would be possible to use available light instead of the LED backlight (which was what I castigated as a 'rotten idea', having tried the M9 Titanium), and if proper parallax compensation and switchable multi-frames could be incorporated, I'd be delighted to be proved wrong.
Cheers,
R.
jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
I notice these framelines even compensate for the distortion of the lens