Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:14 22/11/97 +0000, you wrote: >Joe, >I just broke down and bought a demo/new 35ML and I have a question for you. >It seems >that the viewfinder has a rather poor, blurry quality as compared to any >other Minox I've >tried. Is it because of the halfmirror for the LED display? Is yours like >this? If it's >normal, I suppose I can survive it but if it's not, I'd like to have Leica >fix it. >Thanks, >Danny Gonzalez I hadn't consciously noticed a problem but now that you have drawn my attention to it and I've looked at it again, there is a bit of flare, some light reflections and something less than the clarity of say, an M6 viewfinder. But I got it used for UKP 120 and it never occurred to me to look critically at the viewfinder optics, since they've been good enough for the use I give it. It's been so long since I used any other Minox 35 that I wouldn't be able to compare. I wouldn't have used the word "blurry" though- the image in the viewfinder isn't blurred, it's just washed out to some extent with flare and reflections. Maybe you could compare yours with another ML. It is certainly possible that there is a price to pay for having that mirror in the viewfinder. Ahem; I just compared my ML vf to the vfs in an early Rollei 35 and a Ricoh GR1 and both were noticeably and distinctly better than the ML. Joe Berenbaum