Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Felix Erazo wrote: > > Hello Lugers > I have a question nobody seems to know. I just bought my first Leica > M6"Classic". with a 50mm f2. latest. At lunch time i took it out for a test > run. side by side with my Nikon F100 with a 50mm lens. What i Immediately > noticed was that the angle of view of 50 mm on the M6 was noticeably less > than the 50 mm on my F100. in otherwords I could see alot more of an image > in my nikon than the M6. Are the frame lines 100 view? on the M6? > Thanks > Felix Be sure that you're not confusing magnification with angle of view. The Nikon will make everything look bigger because you are seeing through a 50mm lens, whereas the view through your M6 will look like a 28mm view with framelines floating in air... If this isn't the problem, I don't know what the answer is...:-) Isaac