Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The M Compendium is an excellent book, but he screwed up in confusing the Effective baselengths with the actual baselengths. Please see my site at http://cameraquest.com/leica.htm Regards, Stephen Gandy Curt Miller wrote: > Hi Lucien - > > On page 26 of the Leica Compendium, Jonathan Eastland indicates the > "Rangefinder Base Length. 68.5mm" for the M5 and on page 35 he lists > that of > the M6 at 49.9. Are these absolute base lengths as opposed to > effective > base lengths? And, if he intended them to be absolute, he is surely > wrong > because the M5 finder windows are not 20mm farther apart in the M5 > than in > the M6. This issue is something we haven't had much discussion about > in > LUG. What do you think? > > Curt > > > > >