Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> What I wonder about is: From the mails of the LUGnuts who reported=20 > they lost lost their eyepiece I get the impression that it isn't=20 > possible to photograph without the eyepiece. Is this true and does=20 > this mean the eyepiece isn't just a piece of flat glass? >=20 > Stefan > -- > Stefan Kahlert,=20 > Medizinische Poliklnik der Universitaet Bonn > uzs13b@uni-bonn.de=20 Better than trying to check it for yourself (I=B4m the one that lost it = in Buenos Aires) I=B4ll tell you. It has a correction glass, not a flat glas= s. If you look through the M6 without the eyepiece, you can hardly distingui= sh some of the lines of the frames, and see tiny red spots (the leds) but th= e image is totally blurred and I would say impossible to compose. If you lo= ok for more than 5 seconds, you start getting dizzy, like when I look throug= h my grandfather's thick reading glasses. This thought brings me another thought. Somebody=B4s grandfather might ha= ve found my lost eyepiece in a dirty street of Buenos Aires and using it as = a monocle for reading. ;-) UPDATE ON "RAIDERS OF THE LOST EYEPIECE" : Yesterday I went to Leica distributors in Spain, bought the damn piece (7= 5 $), and they suggested that they would better screw it with a "special machine for that purpose" (????????). I said yes, they took my M6 inside and in aprox. 3 minutes they gave it to me. At least, the guy was cool enough to offer me to come back another day for having my meter done a sensitometry check ( see my message: "M6 meter not sensitive enough?" Jan 8th) totally free.=20