Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]it sounds like your problem could be solved by: http://www.konermann.net/homepage.html (go to "shade") it works for me. - -rei > From: Martin Jangowski <martin@jangowski.de> > > Hi all, > > after several years of "stamp-sized negative" bashing I recently couldn't > resist any longer and bought a like-new M6-TTL with the 0.85 finder and a > Summicron 2/90. > > A few days ago, I took it for a first test ride. We had a big family > meeting on Nov. 1th, so I took my faithful Mamiya 7 with the 4/80mm lens > and the M6. I intended to make totals and group photos with the Mamiya and > take portraits with the M6. The meeting was at the cemetery where our > ancestors are buried, there were 8/8 clouds, ideal for portraiture in the > open. > > After using the Mamiya 7 (and the Mamiya 6) for a few years now, the Leica > was not very different. Since the light didn't change, I took a incident > reading with a Gossen lightmeter and ignored the builtin light meter of > the M6, using Delta 400 in the Mamiya and Fomapan 100 in the M6. Switching > between cameras for totals and detail shoots was easy, but one thing was > _really_ annoying: while the Mamiya finder is bright and the focusing is > very easy, the focusing spot of the Leica was very often unusuable. > Especially when using the camera in portrait orientation, the center spot > got very bright and didn't show any details, making distance measurement > impossible. I have to wear glasses and had to move the eye into a very > specific position to be able to focus correctly. The Leica films show a > large percentage of negatives with wrong focusing (sometimes completely > off...). Ok, the 90mm Summicron was used wide open at 1-2m distance, and > the zone of sharpness is much narrower than I had expected, but I never > had so much bad focused pictures before. The Mamiya finder didn't ever > showed such a problem... am I too dumb to use a Leica correctly, is this a > general Leica problem or could this be a problem with this specific > camera? > > Martin > > | Martin Jangowski E-Mail: Martin@Jangowski.de| > | Netzwerke und Multimedia | > | Voice: +49 7946/940790 Fax: +49 7946/940791 | > | Snail Mail: Von-Olnhausen Str. 4 74626 Bretzfeld Germany | - -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html