Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Rangefinder topics
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:05:53 -0400

> Somewhere in the middle of M4-P production the rangefinder design change was
> made that started the patch flaring out easily. Perhaps the M4-P finder
> design was modified to be like the M6 finder to rationalise production
> costs? I had one of the last M4-2 cameras and the finder was the same as my
> M2 for flare.
>
> John Collier
>
>> From: Thomas Kachadurian <tom@kachadurian.com>
>>
>> Erwin Wrote: The tendency to flare under some conditions is a
>> characteristic of the M4P and
>> all M6 finders...
>>
>> This is not the case at all in my limited experience. I have had 3 M6
>> bodies, from very old to the last in production before the TTL, and
>> all flared easily. My M-4P, which I use most often, has never shown
>> the veiling flare I get with the M6.
>>
>

John,

You may be right. I have a M4-P finder in my M2 and it must be early M4-P
because it is practically flare-free.

Steve
Annapolis