[Leica] Best Solution for M10 Viewfinder Maginfication

[Dennis Kushner]

Part # 24001 for the step ring  Don't have price info

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 4:42 AM Dennis Kushner <dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Leica makes a step ring for the M finders for the M10. Call a Leica dealer
> for the part #.
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 1:12 AM Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I found the best solution to all this is to give up on m cameras.   I
>> hated to, but the time came that getting focus was taking too much away
>> from the pleasure of photography.  What’s more, the insult of the so called
>> visoflex solution left over from cheap Olympus point and shoots to get live
>> view, added to the reason I changed.  For thirty years I was faithful, but
>> my head got turned.   There’s still art in working with a fine auto focus
>> lens.
>>
>>  ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Sonny Carter
>> http://www.SonC.com/look
>>
>>
>> > On Jul 31, 2018, at 11:09 PM, Frank Farmer <
>> frank at f3documentaryphotography.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > This is my first and last bump to try and get an answer to the question
>> lodged below.
>> >
>> > Thanks, team!
>> >
>> > Frank F. Farmer
>> > Jackson, Mississippi
>> >
>> >> On Jul 29, 2018, at 3:36 PM, Frank Farmer <
>> frank at f3documentaryphotography.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Team,
>> >>
>> >> I was annoyed to learn that the M10 does not accept the older screw-in
>> viewfinder magnifiers (1.25x and 1.4x). As my aging eyes don’t achieve
>> tack-sharpe focus with a M camera and a wide-open 90 Summicron like they
>> did when I was in my 20s, I feel I need some help.
>> >>
>> >> Here are my questions:
>> >>
>> >> 1) How does the Leica viewfinder thread adaptor work? I looked for a
>> video on the subject with no luck.
>> >>
>> >> 2) Is the viewfinder thread adaptor bulky? Cumbersome? Does is
>> otherwise hinder the viewfinder when not using a screw-in accessory? Does
>> one leave it in all the time?
>> >>
>> >> 3) Are the two lines of questions, supra, obviated by the newer
>> Visoflex? In other words, does the Visoflex allow magnified focusing like
>> using live view on the M10 such that the viewfinder magnifiers are not
>> necessary?
>> >>
>> >> Please advise.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance,
>> >>
>> >> Frank F. Farmer
>> >> Jackson, Mississippi
>> >>
>> >>
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