Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/28

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Subject: Re: Leitz / Japanese BL finders / my eyes
From: Stanley E Yoder <syoder+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 00:20:59 -0500 (EST)

Excerpts from mail: 27-Nov-97 Leica-Users List Digest V2 #14 by
Listmgr@mejac.palo-alto. 
> Anyway, I once called 
> Nikon about the diopter for my old F3, back when I shot Nikon, and they 
> told me that the normal finder was already a -1.  I do not know about any 
> other cameras as the F3 was the only one I was inquiring about.

I believe all Nikon SLRs have the builtin -1. I wear glasses to correct
myopia, so the image is sharp in my F2 and F3 finders. But I use a +.5
diopter in order to make the finder readouts (shutterspeed, meter
indicators) also sharp.




Stan Yoder
Pittsburgh