Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica]M7 info wnated
From: Thomas Schofield <tdschofield@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 03:07:07 -0700 (PDT)

I tried this today, and found that the rf window took
on the color of the lighting.  White out doors, amber
from a Tiffany-type lamp shade, etc.

Tom 

- --- Steve LeHuray <steve@streetphoto.net> wrote:
> > Re:[Leica]M7 info wnated
> > 
> > the way you can tell which rangefinder you have
> is:
> > look at the rangefinder widow with reflective
> viewwing (a light source at
> > 90-180 degrees from the horizontal plane of the
> glass. if the glass is
> > grey/blue in reflected viewing, it is an m7 with
> the "old" m6 rangefinder
> > produced with anti-reflective coated windows. if
> the rangefinder window is
> > amber toned then you have the new corrected
> rangefinder in the mp.
> 
> ...hmmm...interesting, both my M6TTL .72 and .85 are
> amber
> > 
> > rgds,
> > 
> > falcon
> > 
> sl
> 
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