Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henning, A good testimonial, indeed. I think that's 5 for 5. Good batting average. Gotta watch the eyepiece I guess. Jeffrey had the same problem. Thanks, Len On Nov 16, 2006, at 8:05 PM, Henning Wulff wrote: > At 3:13 PM -0500 11/16/06, Leonard Taupier wrote: >> Peter, >> >> That's a nice ad for monovision contacts. I'm glad it's working >> out for you. I doubt I would ever get contacts as my progressives >> are just fine, except for the scratched lenses with the older M >> bodies. Also I'm too old to change my ways now. >> >> You might like to look into a .58 body. I shoot a lot of 28mm and >> found it pretty impossible to correctly frame with the .72 >> viewfinder. I picked up a 28mm viewfinder and that was fine. When >> I got my Tri-Elmar, going back and forth between viewfinders was >> kind of a pain. Then my dealer got in a beautiful black .58 M7 >> and I picked it up. I love that camera. The 28mm frame is just >> right for me. I'm afraid my M6 and MP are being neglected. >> Sometimes I'll go out with just a 50 Summicron in which case any >> body is fine. > > I found that the lower magnification of the Hexar RF is ideal for > use with the Tri-Elmar; it makes a wonderful outdoor travel package. > > For the most part the Hexar RF's have been great cameras for me. > Mine have stayed quite well in adjustment in spite of having been > banged around a bit. I'm not terribly hard on equipment, but > they've each had quite a few hundred rolls through them, possibly > over a thousand. They are ideal for use with 35mm lenses (I wear > glasses), perfect with the Tri-Elmar but not quite accurate enough > for use with the 90/2. I've carried one with the Tri-Elmar and an > M6 or 7 with various faster and fixed lenses on a number of trips, > and in the summer around here it's often just the Hexar and the Tri-E. > > Battery life is good; I get about 150 to 200 rolls per set. > Metering is fine, but the shutter speeds are hard to see at times > because you have to line up your eye correctly. The exposure > compensation is a lot better than that of the M7. I don't care for > the flip-open back, preferring the Leica M way which I actually > find to be at least as fast and more mis-load proof. > > I almost lost one of the eyepieces. That would be a disaster, as > the glass is not flat but an optical element. A little bit of > loktite helped. I did lose the framing selector lever on one body. > I now did the loktite to the other body. > > Early on when I heard about the register thing I did some > calculations and tests; on that basis my 35/1.4 was the most > unforgiving with respect to depth of focus, and it didn't have any > issues. Thereafter I just took pictures and never noticed a problem. > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information