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Subject: [Leica] Viewfinder problem
From: john at mcmaster.fr (John McMaster)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:17:27 +0200
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I think the M9 needs to be able to have your eyes focus at 1m? I have
perfect vision but my S2 is to -1 dioptre for focus...

john

-----Original Message-----

It is obviously my right eye because when I put my eye closer to the
viewfinder then I can see more of the surrounding area. To answer another
question, the frame lines do not look sharp which again suggests that it is
my eye sight which I know is gradually getting worse. I guess at some stage
I will have to get a correction lens. The rangefinder window is sharp,
probably better than the rest but a little hard to tell.

As for glasses, I wear them for reading and watching TV, but I am aware that
my distance vision is gradually getting worse.

I generally close the left eye when shooting.

Thanks for the efforts to help - do they sell new eyeballs?

Gerry

Gerry Walden
023 8046 3076

> On 20 Jul 2015, at 18:53, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Trying to get to the bottom of this issue, a few questions.....
> 
> Gerry, to make things a bit more clear, please put a photo of the 
> camera's back side, near the eyepiece, up for us all to see.....
> Not through the eyepiece, but OF the eyepiece.....
> 
> And now questions.... does the image through the eyepiece appear to 
> you to be in focus?  ( nothing to do with the RF, just the view of the 
> world out in front).
> 
> Is the RF window area in focus as well as the rest of the image?  Better?
> Worse?
> 
> And the framing lines?  Are they themselves in focus?
> 
> As much as you do not wear glasses when taking pictures, do you or 
> should you wear glasses for anything other than reading?
> 
> The right eye left eye question is also important.....  Which do you 
> shoot through?  Do you keep both eyes open when using the M9?
> 
> If you were to push the camera further up to your face then is 
> normally comfortable, what frame lines do you see?  Does this "cure" the
issue?
> 
> What camera(s) were you using before the M9?  (reference point)
> 
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
> 
> 
>>>>>> With the 35mm lens fitted (the only one I have) the frame lines 
>>>>>> are at
> the edge of my field of view. There is space around them so the camera 
> is fine, it is my eyes. Has anyone any suggestions how I see more of 
> the viewfinder?
> 
> 




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