Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Even for me without glasses the 28 frames are not easy to see. I just take the whole frame. You can consider the 0.58 Leica or even better the coming V/C Bessa with the wide vf. Best regards, Michiel Fokkema Alex wrote: > Thank you all responding, yes, I do wear glasses and perhasp this is > indeed a part of the problem, though...xmm...a good excuse to go a > spectacles-removing (sight-correction) eye surgery I'm planning on > within a year or two.... ;-) . > Chances in some foreseeable future I'll pick a wide angle to broaden up > my RF coverage and 28mm is a natural WA for me, but then I'll indeed > will consider a dedictaed 28mm finder (CV's)... > BTW, 35mm frames look indeed the most natural in M6 (and I guess in most > other Leica bodies) - wide yet easily discernable - just enough to > occupy most of the readily visiable 0.72 finder space, and this is > probably the important aspect of this focal length to gain such > populatiry among Leica M shooters, but I feel it's too close with my > 50mm in coveragewhile 28mm seems to eb spaced wide enough for me. > > Best, Alex > > Leonard Taupier wrote: > >> Even if I didn't wear glasses (I do), I would get a 28mm finder with >> the .72 body. Even on a .58 body I find I have to move my eye from >> side to side to see everything. But it's doable. If you ever get the >> 28mm, the CV finders are nice and reasonably priced. >> >> Len >> >> On Jan 20, 2007, at 7:16 AM, Alex wrote: >> >>> Something that bothers me a bit, even though I only have single, >>> Summocron 50mm/2 (latest) lens that is obviously "glued" on my M6. >>> Anyway, sometimes I like to play with frame lines preview while >>> shooting just to check how the composiiton would look with other >>> then 50mm lens and I'm struck with 28mm frame lines. The vertical >>> lines can be barely visible simmultenously (I try to carefully >>> center my eye over the finder), whlist the side lines are totally >>> out of the view. In order to see them, I need some kind of eye- >>> acrobatics and even then only one-side line can be noticed at the >>> finder side boundaries, either left or right. >>> So I wonder how it can be possible to effectively use 28mm frames on >>> M6 Classic (0.72) with corresponding lens ? What are your experiences ? >>> Do you just use entire field of view of the finder and accept the >>> fact of some additional >>> parts to get on the film that couldn't be seen in the finder ? >>> >>> Thanks, Alex >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Best regards, Michiel Fokkema