RE: [Leica] Which Leica M6 should I buy?

["Peter Shier" <pshier@mindspring.com>]

When you say flare in the finder are your referring to the problem that I
have seen when there is even moderate backlighting that makes it very
difficult to focus because the solid white rectangle becomes washed out?
When that happens it is very hard to align facial parts object lines.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Dennis
Painter
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 11:37 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Which Leica M6 should I buy?


Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
> Paul Chefurka wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:10:49 -0400, "Peter Shier"
> > <pshier@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> > >OK, then why would anyone want the lower mag models?
> >
> > For the visibility of the wide-angle frame lines.  Models like the .58
> > are intended for use with short lenses that can be focussed accurately
> > with the smaller effective baselength.
> >
> If you count the LUG posts complaining about such:
> there 4862 of them.
> It's as if they were listening to us and corrected the problem.
> Or people wrote in.
> Mark Rabiner

On the insane idea that they might be listening, the only thing I can
think of that would convice me to buy another M6 would be fixing the
FLARE!

And I cannot believe it costs that much. The M2 finder just doesn't have
the FLARE like the FLARING M6 finder. (mine is the M6HM)

Dennis