Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Optical depth of field indicator
From: aglang@sprynet.com
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:19:10 -0800

Why the DOF marks were dropped with the M4 is not clear, but I DOUBT  that it 
was the reduced VF size on the M4 since the notches ORIGINATED on the M2, whose 
smaller VF was used in the M4 and later models.......

>This is only present on the very late DS and SS M3's and was not carried
>over to the M4 or later models.  It works well, but is rather hard to use
>due to the small size of the notches -- which is why I suspect they didn't
>use it on the M4, as the reduced VF size would have made these notches even
>harder to use.
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>Marc
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