[Leica] Viewfinder problem

Sonny Carter sonc.hegr at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 11:17:02 PDT 2015


Not new eyeballs, but when I had cataract surgery, I had my left eye done for distance and my right for reading, so most of the time I don't need glasses at all, since I shoot with my left eye, and viewfinders are set up for distance vision.  

Drastic solution, but it works great, similar to mono vision contacts.

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Sonny Carter
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> On Jul 20, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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