Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No the only claim to fame is through bicycle commuting and that is mostly local fame. I did appear on the National once and received calls from from a number of cranks for a while afterwards. So no real-estate, no short stories, no photojournalism, no magazine or whatever else my namesakes have been up to. The name derives from the coal pits in the UK; much like Miller, Smith, etc. A coal pit was a colliery and a coal miner was a collier. My family ended up in Ireland as tenet farmers (smell of bacon on Sunday, the rent went up on Monday) and we can trace ourselves back there three hundred years at least. So who knows when we popped over from the UK. My parents came to Canada in 1953. The eyes certainly do not make the view clearer and that is why some people dislike them. After a good cleaning it is OK. Whether my OK is good enough for you only experience can tell. John Collier (but not that John Collier) On Dec 8, 2003, at 7:41 PM, Karen Nakamura wrote: >> No, it will only focus accurately at infinity if the eyes are >> removed. The goggled len's cam is different from a non-goggled len's >> cam. You can use it on any M camera as it is. The googles adjust the >> field of view of the 50 framelines to show the 35mm field of view. >> This gives very good eye relief and closely matches the frame size of >> the 35mm framelines in an 0.58x camera. > > John- > > Central Camera in Chicago had a very nice one in like new condition in > the box. I played around with it on my M7 for a while, but passed on > it. It seemed to make my M7's brilliant finder a little less than > brilliant - almost as if I was peering through a cheap rangefinder. Is > this normal? Maybe the goggles needed a good cleaning. > > Karen > > p.s. You're not related to the famous visual anthropologist, John > Collier are you? - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html