Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Liam Maloney asked: >>> Thanks for the recommendations. How much of the VF is > blocked with the 35/1.2? One of the nice things about > the (old) 35 'lux is its' relatively small size.<<< Hi Liam, It takes a bit off the lower right corner of the viewfinder, but nothing visually destroying. And I don't think any worse than the Noctilux. But regardless of how much it cuts off, after a time using the lens you'll not see the blocked corner anyway. Besides anyone using the Noctilux for a period of time will tell you eventually the corner intrusion doesn't make any difference. And anyone using an M and thinking they're going to have critical corner to corner exactly what they see in the viewfinder is fooling themselves. Yeah I suppose if you screw around on a tripod you can get very very accurate viewfinder negative coverage. But if what goes on the film is extremely critical then the photographer should be using some kind of SLR, Leica or otherwise. ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html