Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a slight argument to make with regard to "take your correction and subtract -.5 from it." The argument goes this way: if I am comfortable looking through the unmodified M6 viewfinder while wearing my glasses, then I should be equally comfortable with a correction lens of the same strength as my glasses. When I was buying a correction lens at Keeble and Shuchat (a mistake, I might add. They charged me $99. The B & H price, I discovered too late, is $72.), I simply looked at the distant scene through my glasses and rapidly switched between my glasses and the correction lens to see if the eye accommodation seemed to be the same. The clerk objected, saying that the lens had to be screwed into the camera. He was so insistent that I had to shut him up by telling him that I'm a physicist and know a wee bit about optics. Change of subject: The same clerk made me exchange two 3 volt lithium batteris for four 1.5 volt silver oxide batteries. They were intended for the M6 and a Nikon FE2. This guy insisted that the Li batteries were wrong for both cameras. I subsequently phoned Leica and was told that the Li was preferred because of long shelf life. I then phoned Nikon and was told that they were both ok, totally interchangeable. So much for the wise guys at K & S. Herb - -- Herbert Kanner kanner@acm.org 650-326-8204