Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Spoke with an acquaintance the morning who has a friend who is a Leica M user. That photographer uses the bugeyes from a DR Summicron as a critical-focussing aid with his 75 Summilux. Evidently the bugeyes, which magnify the VF and RF images by some decent factor (certainly more than the 20% between the 0,72 and 0,85) has the effect of lengthening the effective RF baselength (similar to the eyes on a 135/2.8). The fellow simply holds the DR eyes in front of the viewfinder whilst adjusting focus (he has placed some adhesive felt on the inside of the eyes to prevent scratching the M's frontplate. I suppose this is a slow system, and the person had said something about trying to engineer a way for the eyes to be attached via the flash shoe with a hinged plate so that they might be swiftly flipped up and down. Most interesting idea, and a good way to recycle those bugeyes. Regards, Nigel ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]