Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: M6 Viewfinder Shows only 77%?
From: "Tom Schofield" <tdschofield@email.msn.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 21:56:05 -0800

The problem is that the angle of view of a given lens narrows as you focus
closer.  So, if they set it so that it is framing tightly at minimum focus,
you get something like the 77-79% at infinity.  Leica errrs on the safe
side, at least with the wider angle franmelines by setting them for close
focus accuracy.  Fuji took care of this in their GA645 series -- the framing
lines change size as you focus closer, in addition to moving down and to the
right to compensate for parallax.  Leica only moves down and to the right
for parallax compensation, but does not change the size as you focus.

Tom

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Meier <robertmeier@usjet.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 9:09 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: M6 Viewfinder Shows only 77%?


> That Pop Photo article that is so glowing about the M6 TTL and lenses has
a
> nasty little sidebar (p. 74) that says the .85 M6's viewfinder frames show
> only 79% percent of the on-film picture area, and that the M6 shows only
> 77%!  That means there will be almost a third more area on the negative
than
> what the vf frame is showing.  Can it possibly be that bad?  Couldn't
Leica
> make a viewfinder that's a little more precise than just 77%?
>
> Bob Meier
>
>
>