[Leica] Re: How to: Leitz VIOOH Universal Finder

[dennis at hale-pohaku.com (Dennis Painter)]

Phil's method works quite well. You may be more accurate if you look at a
ruler, scale, tape measure with both eyes open. One eye looking through the
finder of course.

You will find you can align the images from each eye such that the zero
point on the scale is aligned with each image. It will look as though the
image through the finder is superimposed over the image from your naked eye.
Then simply pick  a common point on the scale, say the 10 inch mark and see
where the reduced image lines up with the one from your naked eye.

For example, if the 10 inch mark on the  reduced image aligns at the 6 inch
mark on the image from your naked eye then the magnification is 0.60.

Ok, everyone test their 0.85, 0.72 and 0.58 M6 finders. At least it's
photography related! ;-)

Dennis

Phil Swango wrote:

> Oliver and Marc,
>
> When I look through my VIOOH with both eyes open the image in the finder
> appears less than half the size of the image seen with the naked eye.  I
> estimate the magnification factor to be about .40x.
>