Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ed wrote: > > Just a suggestion... > > I have a goggle 35mm Summicron for my M3. When I use this > > lens on my M6 or M5, with my glasses on I can see the entire > > frame. The bright frame is smaller, but easy to see. Ed Jay replied: > lens rather than a 50. Put that goggle on an M6HM whose full-frame view is > already a 35mm and it will now indicate the coverage of [approximately] a 28mm > lens. On a "regular" M6, it would show [approx] a 24/21mm view. This is Jay, Ed is right on this. The 35mm goggle lens pulls up the 50mm framelines in an M3, M6 or M6HM, and then corrects the field of view to be correct for 35mm. On a regular M6 it gives a high eyepoint and on an M6HM it will be similar to an M3