Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: M2 and 28mm
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:04:05 -0500

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>> One of my M2's has the M4P rangefinder in it and the 28 frame is way out on
>> the edge, so much so that I have to wiggle around to even see it and the 90
>> frame is also pulled up. When I put a 28 on a stock M2 it is the same thing
>> except there is no 28 frame. None of this has ever bothered me over a
>> several year period, this 28 mm practically lives on this body.
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> Are you saying that your 28mm practically lives on the body with no frame
> for it?  (And just as a matter of interest:  which frame *does* the 28 pull
> up on a standard M2 finder?)
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> Douglas Cooper
> http://www.dysmedia.com
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No, there is a 28mm frame but it is hard to see (the standard complaint
about the M6 .72) and with that M2 (this is the one with M4P rangefinder)
everything you see is in the 28mm frame and also in the viewfinder is the
90mm frameline. On the standard M2 you also have the 90mm frameline in the
viewfinder when you mount the 28mm. If you put on a 35 or 50 then you only
have those frames.

As I said I do not do any critical composition with any of my M's and my
main lenses are 28, 35 and 50 and very occasionally 90mm. Until I looked
yesterday between the two M's, I had forgotten that the 90mm frame was even
there all the time, that is how little is bothers me.

So by putting a 28mm on a standard M2 just consider everything you see to be
in the picture.

Steve
Annapolis