Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/06
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>> I gather there is a drawback to the M6HM when shooting 35mm lens due to
>> the outer extremity of the bright light frames.
>
>I was concerned about this when I first contemplated getting an HM. I ended
>up concluding that those who had a problem were big whiners. :-)
I just made the switch. You gain much more than you lose. The HM finder has
beautiful brightness and contrast, a clear improvement optically over the
classic M6 (which wasn't bad at all, the new one's just better). The 35mm
lines are farther out towards the edge, but don't seem as far out as the
28mm lines were on the regular M6. I don't wear glasses, so using them
isn't a problem.
In practice I tend to rest my right cheek on my thumb when looking through
the viewfinder. When doing this I can see the 35mm framelines all around.
If I press in a little closer I can see space around the framelines.
There's no special effort needed, therefore, to frame up the picture. I
think that once I get used to it I won't notice the difference.
- -Charlie
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Charles E. Dunlap
Earth Sciences Department
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Tel.: (408) 459-5228 Fax.: (408) 459-3074
mailto:cdunlap@es.ucsc.edu
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