Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/11

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Subject: Re: Is my IIIC viewfinder inaccurate?
From: Rainer Mueller <uh3b207@hpmail.lrz-muenchen.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 14:08:44 +0100 (MET)

>In article <UWnRkBAL5xqyEwSJ@dircon.co.uk>, "Joe B."
><Joe@azurite.demon.co.uk> writes
>>Is my IIIC viewfinder seriously
>>inaccurate? If so, is this usual? 
>
> Well I think I can answer my own questions now with yes and yes. I
> called my friend Sanjay at Ffordes Photographic today and he got out 2
> M6's, a IIIF rd, a IIIF bd and a II and compared the viewfinders in all.
> All the screw bodies' viewfinders showed substantially more than the
> 50mm frames of the M6's.
> >

Have you tried also the 50mm setting in the universal screw mount
viewfinder? It would be interesting to see whether this is more
accurate.

Regards, Rainer