Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I thought all M2, M4 (including M4-2 & M4-P) and M6 (except .85 and .58) viewfinders were the same .72 magnification. How can they have "shrunk the framelines?" Gilbert on 10/14/01 9:10 PM, John Collier at jbcollier@powersurfr.com wrote: > It should be pointed out that this is for the six frameline finders. The > other finders have the framelines covering a slightly larger area. So on my > TTL 0.72 with the 1.25x magnifier mount I too can easily see the 35mm > framelines. However on my M2 with the 1.25x magnifier mounted I cannot quite > see all of the 35mm framelines at one glance. Leica shrunk the 35/50/90/135 > framelines to squeeze in the 28mm framelines. > > John Collier > >> From: leica@davidmorton.org >> >> 1.25x on .72 body. Without glasses the whole 35mm frame is visible, with >> glasses I can't see the whole 50mm frame, but the 75mm frame and smaller are >> fine. >> >> 1.25x on .85 body. Without glasses the whole 50mm frame is easily visible, >> with glasses the 75mm frame is just visible, and the smaller frames are >> fine. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html