Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/08

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Subject: [Leica] Re: M6 Neophyte-Focus Questions
From: Urban Fredriksson <griffon@canit.se>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 14:32:24 +0100

sandyquandt@centuryinter.net wrote: 

> For those of you who acquired the M6 after primarily using a 
> SLR, did you find that it took awhile to become accustomed to M6 > focusing (especially in low light)? 

I used SLRs for 21 years, so when I switched to Leica M
I expected "a learning curve". Didn't happen that way,
I was friends with the rangefinder from day one -- with
one exception: There is a problem for me focusing and
seeing the brightlines in the vertical format, I think 
partly because I don't hold it like in the instruction
manual, but the other way round.

(OK, I have missed with the rangefinder, couple of
months ago I was photographing vines growing on a
grid. They were out of focus, but the wall behind
in, so probably I lined up the wrong vertical 
components of the grid in the finder. But this is
an one time occurrence.)
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