Re: [Leica] Leica vs. Contax wars

[john <bosjohn@mediaone.net>]

Mike Leitheiser wrote:
> 
> john wrote:
> 
> > Mark Rabiner wrote:
> > >
> > > ><Snip>
> > > > I am John Shick ...and I
> > HUGE snip
> > >
> >
> > When I am working
> > with people or doing street photography I always choose the Leica, when I am
> > going out for purposes other than Photography, and want to carry a camera I
> > may choose the Contax.
> 
> Grin...so if you aren't going out for Photo ops, carry a Contax.  Maybe it was funnier the
> first time I read it.
> 
> > I wear eyeglasses and I can see all the frame for the 28 mm lens in the Contax.  I
> > cannot see any of the
> > 28mm frame in the Leica m6. Just a point, but for all the eyeglass wearers out
> > there, an important one.
> 
> Speak for yourself John....(who said that?  Pocahantas?)  or was it don't say that till
> you have seen through another mans eyeglasses?   I wear glasses and can see almost all of
> the 28mm frame in my M6.  On a good day I can see one side frame line, the top and the
> bottom and the small space outside same and right up to the edge of where the other side
> is without changing eye position.
> 
> > Bosjohn
> 
> > http://sites.netscape.net/bosjohnusa/homepage
> 
> --
> Mike Leitheiser
> Lake Oswego, Oregon
> 
> "When the trout are lost, smash the state."
>    Tom McGuane
Wow, I can barely see the 35mm frame line and I have to work to do that.
Another poster also pointed out I shouldn't speak for all spectical wearers, I
yield, I cannot speak for you all.  I do have several friends who wear glasses
and use Leicas and have trouble seeing the wider framelines so I can speak at
least for them.  I would trade a little camera height to have a bigger
viewfinder so I could see all the frame.