Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/10
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At 3:20 PM -0500 3/10/01, Dan Post wrote:
>Wei-
>With the eyes, you use the normal 50mm framelines, and as I recall, to take
>off the eyes, you have to set the lens distance scale to infinity to slide
>them off....
>Dan
>----- Original Message -----
>From: wei zhang
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 2:19 PM
>Subject: [Leica] Question for LUG: frameline on M3 for 35mm summaron lens
>
>
>Hi all,
>Just received a 35mm f3.5 Summaron lens with eyes, and mount it onto my
>sweet M3. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me whether if the regular 50mm
>frameline on the M3 can use for 35mm lens also since the eye has been
>attached. And how do I take the eye off in order to mount it on other leica
>bodies?
>Thanks.
>Wei
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>
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...and if you take the eyes off, you can't use the rangefinder for
focussing anymore. Best to leave the eyes on for all cameras; then
everything works.
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