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Subject: [Leica] Usign 28mm frame on M6 ?
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sat Jan 20 14:45:45 2007
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Slobodan,

Thanks for saying this.  I have the CV 35 finder, as well as a Leitz 50, 
and, as a glasses-impaired Leica user, I have more trouble with the CV edges 
of the field than I do with the Leitz.  I thought it was unique to my 
vision.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Usign 28mm frame on M6 ?


> The CV finders have issues with their width angle. One still has to 
> 'hunt' around to see the sides. I've had number of them, and wearing 
> glasses, I found them not as forgiving as the Leica finders. On the 
> Leizt/Leica individual finders, on the other hand, even eyeglass  wearers 
> can still the whole of the frame lines.
>
> Slobodan Dimitrov
> http://www.sdimitrovphoto.com/
>
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Michiel Fokkema wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Michiel Fokkema
>>
>>
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Replies: Reply from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] Usign 28mm frame on M6 ?)
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