Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello, all! I have an M6 0.85. I'm absolutely in love with this camera, but as some have pointed out on this group, the rangefinder patch can tend to be obscured by flare, especially when the camera (and the frameline illuminator window) is in full light and I'm shooting into the shadows. I've recently tried placing a thin stripe of black tape placed horizontally over the frameline illumination window, sized so that it leaves about 50% of the window open (25% on top, 25% on bottom). I find that this *greatly* increases the contrast of the range- finder patch but doesn't reduce the brightness of the frame lines to enough to matter. Some improvement occurs even under normal lighting conditions. Questions: 1. Have others had similar experience? 2. Can a good Leica service person "hot rod" such a modification into the camera the next time I send it in for CLA? Any idea what this would cost? Thanks, Alexey ps, welcome back Eric!