Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, Part of the difficulty with eye glasses and anything optical is how far the glasses sit from the eye. I too have warn glasses for a long time and I have difficulty with eye relief on all optical products (binoculars, cameras, microscopes, etc.). With my astigmatism, without glasses nothing is clear at any distance. I can just barely see the 35mm frame in my .72 M6. I have to look around for the 50mm frame in my M3. My head movement peering for the frame in the M3 really chews up my glasses. I've added a M6 rubber ring to the the M3 and even that additional eye relief causes further loss of the frame in the finder. I'm glad to hear that not all eye glasses users have the same degree of difficulty that I have. I'm not sure what would help me best, the new laser eye surgery, shallower eye sockets or a nose job. :-) Happy shooting, Roger Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > Hi John, > > I wear glasses, and I have never understood what all the fuss is about. Perhaps > this is because I have worn them so long (since age 9, and I am now 39), I am so > used to them that I am not all bothered when I use my Leicas--even when I have my > 35mm lens on the M6HM. Somebody wrote that he had a difficult time seeing the 50mm > frame on an M3. I find that hard to imagine (yes, I have an M3 which is more or > less dedicated to my Noctilux). > > Nathan > > John Collier wrote: > > > I have always thought that having to use glasses with a camera must be very > > frustrating. The new 0.58x finder is billed by Leica as being the solution. > > They claim the 0.58x rangefinder is accurate enough to focus the Noctilux, > > the Summilux 75 and the Summicron 90. You can get correction lenses for the > > eyepiece but then you are blind until you can get your glasses back on. I > > would hold off until you can try all three cameras side by side. All three > > cameras are compromises from the ideal and only you can decide which is best > > for you. > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > > e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > > General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ > Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ > Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/