[Leica] Re: focussing the 28mm Elmarit-R

["Doug Richardson" <doug@meditor.demon.co.uk>]

Bud Cook <budcook@ibm.net> wrote:

>I've been using the 28 Elmarit-R on an SL/2 w/split image viewfinder
for 21
>years.  I've never had a problem focusing this combination even in
light so low
>that the exposure was 1 second at f/2.8 w/K25.

Interesting - having just used exactly that combo on vacation
recently, I'd agree with the earlier posting - focussing is
near-impossible in poor light, eg in a museum. At 1 sec/f2.8 with K200
the image as seem through the finder is just too dim.

However, I don't have very good eyesight (short-sight + heavy
astigmatism) so it's possible that the problem lies with my eyes and
not with the camera. Another possibility that my SL2 prism may need
re-silvering - the image seen via an f2 50mm is about half the visual
brightness of the 'real-world' (while on my other SL2 it's about 1/4
brightness, and has a yellow tinge - definitely a candidate for
re-silvering).

However, I had the same problem with a Nikkorex in the mid-1960s - to
me the SLR is a camera for outdoor use only.

Regards,

Doug Richardson