Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]unless you want to spend major bucks, it is something you have to live with. The m-3 you have was made in the mid-1950s and age has done its thing. Mine has started to get a little separation in it as well, but it should hold on for a long time to come yet. I wonder, also, if the dimness you note is not because of the problem your camera has as much as you are comparing it to a new camera with, one assumes, improved optics in the rangefinder -- better coatings and so forth. The m-6 rangefinder could just be better in that regard, which would mean that even if you had a time machine and could go back to 1955 and snatch your m-3 off the assembler's table as he finished it, it would still look dimmer compared to the m-6. sounds as if you have a nice camera, though. live with its peculiarities -- after nearly 50 years, it's earned the right to have some. ctrentelman In a message dated 9/16/01 1:09:09 AM, owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us writes: << The camera is very nice to use apart from the rangefinder double image, sometimes when things go fast I can't fix the focus, also when it is very dark it's more difficult to focus than on my M4-P. Is this something one should accept from an M3, or is it due to the fogged/dusted/separated rangefinder vindow? >>