JRG
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Yes, it's around 0.9, but what value exactly?
The Head Bartender's site says 0.91:
http://www.cameraquest.com/mguide.htm#M2's
E. Puts repeatedly says 0.92:
http://www.imx.nl/photo/Analysis/Analysis/Analysis/page80.html
Gunter Osterloh's Leica M: Advanced Photo School repeatedly says 0.90 [Note: 0.90, not 0.9 (with one exception).]
And you can find lots of other supposedly informed sources (Camerapedia, Photoethnography, etc.) that assert one of those three values: 0.90, 0.91, or 0.92. And quite likely, some of these sources have acquired their information from another such source.
Certainly, this is nit-picking. And you could argue that all three values round to 0.9.
That's true, but 0.58 rounds just as easily to 0.6, as does 0.72 to 0.7. And no one ever reports those two magnifications as anything other than "0.58" and "0.72".
So why are there three different values for the M3's viewfinder, from people who seem well-informed? And is any of the three values --- 0.90, 0.91, 0.92 --- known to be correct, to two decimal places?
The Head Bartender's site says 0.91:
http://www.cameraquest.com/mguide.htm#M2's
E. Puts repeatedly says 0.92:
http://www.imx.nl/photo/Analysis/Analysis/Analysis/page80.html
Gunter Osterloh's Leica M: Advanced Photo School repeatedly says 0.90 [Note: 0.90, not 0.9 (with one exception).]
And you can find lots of other supposedly informed sources (Camerapedia, Photoethnography, etc.) that assert one of those three values: 0.90, 0.91, or 0.92. And quite likely, some of these sources have acquired their information from another such source.
Certainly, this is nit-picking. And you could argue that all three values round to 0.9.
That's true, but 0.58 rounds just as easily to 0.6, as does 0.72 to 0.7. And no one ever reports those two magnifications as anything other than "0.58" and "0.72".
So why are there three different values for the M3's viewfinder, from people who seem well-informed? And is any of the three values --- 0.90, 0.91, 0.92 --- known to be correct, to two decimal places?