Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, I think the 0.8 was a waste for me. I bought them both together from Hong Kong. Frank On 23 Jul, 2007, at 19:37, Frank Filippone wrote: > Hey, Frank..... sounds like getting the .8 magnifier is a waste of $ > $$? At > least this is what I read into your comments on visibility..... > > I think there is little disagreement over the useability of the 1.25 > magnifier.. it is the .8 that seems a bit harder to nail down.... > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > > OK, I just hauled out my sadly neglected M6. With my specs on and the > standard 0.72 viewfinder the 35mm frames are at the extremes of my > view without moving my eye around and also coincide with the extreme > edges of the viewfinder window, that is to say, outside the 35mm > framelines is black. I can only see the 28mm framelines by moving my > eye around and, depending on how the framelines are moved by the > parallax correction mechanism, the position of some framelines > extends beyond the extreme edges of the viewfinder window, that is to > say, what I see through the viewfinder is less than that bounded by > the 28mm framelines. > > With the 0.85 magnifier fitted nothing effectively changes for me. > The view has slight barrel distortion and, perhaps because the device > pushes the eye another 6mm or so further from the viewfinder, what I > see is exactly as described above but a bit smaller. The 35mm > framelines are still all I can see without moving my eye. > Frank > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information