Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: Erwin Puts <imxputs@knoware.nl> > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:06:38 +0100 > Subject: Re: [Leica] New M6 > >>Does the new M6 viewfinder have the same magnification as the M4? I have a >>M4 and just acquired a 35mm Dumincron for it. I have noticed that the 35mm >>framelines on the M4 can not be seen with spectacles on and with the bare >>eye you must be very clost to the port. For this reason, I am about to >>purchase a M6 with its traditional finder. With this camera I could see >>the 35mm frame lines with my glasses on. > > No, the M4 has the same magnification as the M6 (.72). The M6HM has 0,853 > If you have some trouble with the M4, the M6 will not help you. In both > cases the distance to the ocular is critical. > Erwin Erwin Despite the identical viewfinder magnification on the M1, M2, M4 and variants, M5 and M6, I find it much easier to see the 35mm frame on the M6 than on the M1, M2 and M4-2 that I've owned over the years. Some of this difference seems to be due to the less-obtrusive eyepiece blind just in front of the ocular in the M6 (and maybe the M4-P). It's a small rectangle on the early M's, but much larger and slightly rounded on the M6. This seems to reduce vignetting at the extremes of the viewfinder field. But I wonder if there's also been a redesign of the viewfinder optics to give, eg, more eye relief? Warrick