Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] help: which correction eyepiece ?
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 20:16:22 -0800

At 07:24 PM 3/3/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear lug friends,
>
>I would like your advice on the following:
>
>I am wearing glasses with variable focus +1.25 to +3.25.  What is the
>appropriate eyepiece correction I should buy.
>
>The few dealers I  approached gave me a different answers.  Some say I do
>not need to change the eyepiece but keep my  glasses on, but since there is
>no rubber protection like on the Nikon I am ruining my glasses and it is
>extremely difficult with the 28mm. The other say take the +3. The last one
>said: no not the +3 but something intermediate because you want to see sharp
>at a certain distance.
>
>So please help me out.
>
>thanks
>
>Andreas Frijdal

For an R camera, where you are looking at a ground glass screen, I believe
a +2 would be great. But on an M camera, this won't work. I use +2 on my R
cameras. A +2 is totally wrong for my M6. I'm going to try a +.5 when it
comes in. On the M, it may be trial & error.

Jim