Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A great deal depends on the shape of your face and if you wear glasses. This determines how close your eye gets to the finder and therefore the angle of view you are able to see. From my own (and other's) experience, I would say no. You will have a significant amount extra on your negs. If you can live with that, fine. The 0.58x finder alone, however, does work quite well. Please see this comparison between frameline/negative coverage of the 90mm and 35mm lenses as compared to the finder edge/negative coverage with the 24mm lens: http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=003vlm John Collier On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 01:25 PM, Mark J. Rosen wrote: > Greetings all. I have a question regarding use of the 24mm elmarit > lens > with an M6 ttl .72. I was wondering if the full view through the .72 > finder > is approximately the coverage of the 24mm. I see that the 28mm > brightlines > leave some room in the finder outside its edges, which I thought may > well be > close to what the 24mm gives. After spending a fortune for the 24mm, I > don't want to have spend another fortune on the finder if I can live > without > it. Thanks for any info. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html