Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you wear eyeglasses and use them while focusing first get a vision exam. Then, with a new prescription, buy a Leica correction eyepiece with the proper correction. It's pricey but screws into the normal eyepiece and only adds about 1/8" to the total thickness of the camera. I tried this and it improved my focusing by a significant amount. >I am finding more and more frequently that focusing the M6 at distances >beyond about 10 feet is getting to be difficult for me, given the image >size. With a 50 and a 35 this isn't much of an issue. With the 90 it is. I >have a 90 Summicron. Do any of you have an suggestions - other than to spend >$2000 on the .85 M6, which my wife would be happy to tell you is not an >option - to deal with this problem? I wear glasses, and use them when I >shoot. I assume that an external finder would at least make life easier in >terms of viewing the scene, but focusing... > >Thanks > >