Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Boss John. I was just expecting my computer to be a melted smouldering ruin when I awoke this morning. You are a scholar and a gentleman. Please feel free to cast aspersions on my parental lineage, intellectual capabilities or any other of my many and varied flaws. John Collier > From: john <bosjohn@mediaone.net> > > John Collier wrote: >> >> Forgive me for asking this but could you be confusing the 75 frame with the >> 50mm? The 50mm lens has focussed to .7 meter since 1969 with version 11817. >> >> John Collier (who deserves to be flamed for such audacity) >> >>> From: john <bosjohn@mediaone.net> >>> >>> I was just sitting here fiddling with and M4 and M6, and I noticed, much to >>> my >>> surprise, the 50mm frame line in the M6 is smaller than the M4. I thought >>> to >>> myself, self, how odd, so I got out an M2 and M4-2. The M2, M4, M4-2 50mm >>> frame lines all seemed to include the same within the frame but the M6 >>> included noticeably less within the frame line. I double checked by putting >>> the cameras on a tripod and setting markers ten feet from the camera ( two >>> light stands) to mark the edges of the 50mm frame line for the M4. Replacing >>> the M4 with the M6 the frame lines were, as I said noticeable narrower, >>> though >>> I did not measure how much. It looked like about three inches or so. >>> >>> The only reason I can think of for this oddity is that Leica resized the >>> frame >>> to be accurate at the closest focusing distance when the 50mm Summicron >>> decided it could focus to 28" instead of 40". >>> >>> > I am pretty far gon, but no, I didn't mistake the 75mm frameline for the 50mm. > Bosjohn