Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M2/M3/M4-P/M6 Rangefinder - Was M6 classic and 90mm lenses
From: "ray tai" <jeslam88@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:28:08 PDT

I tend to agree with Mike.  For example, I believe the .72x M6 was designed 
to shoot slides when mounted with a 28mm lens for eye glass sufferers.  I 
found out that while wearing glasses I could not see the entire 28mm frame 
line but ingeniously when my slides came back the slide mount covered up the 
part I could not see in the first place.  No complaints from me regarding 
Leica R&D.  Last month I bought a Hexar RF and what a piece of shit that is. 
  By allowing me to see the entire 28mm frame I now need to process my 
slides unmounted.


>
>on 19/4/00 1:49 AM, Mike Quinn at mlquinn@san.rr.com wrote:
>
> >> Well, I was wondering, could the M6
> >> viewfinder be designed to flare if one is not looking through it dead
> >> straight, so that focussing accuracy is improved?  Any M3 users care to
> >> comment?
>
>Hooray!! Yet more evidence of what my wife claims, that the LUG is a
>sinister cult. In this example, we have the well known "Leica is always
>right, even when it's wrong" mantra. Also known as the "It's not a fault,
>it's a feature" liturgy.
>
>Incidentally, my M4-P and M2 both show rf flare to a certain extent. The
>M4-P is worse than the M2. The idea that this problem is confined to the M6
>is, in my humble experience, wrong. Of course, someone's probably got a
>graph somewhere which shows that neither of my cameras can possibly suffer
>from this problem, and the Leica police are even now on their way, so hey.
>
>--
>Johnny Deadman
>
>photos:      http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
>music:       http://www.jukebox.demon.co.uk
>

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