Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09

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Subject: [Leica] Summarons-with-eyes query
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Tue Nov 9 22:13:14 2004
 
Stan Yoder writes: 

> If you mount one of these on an M2, what happens in the VF? I  assume it 
> calls up 
> the 50mm frame, as I believe it does on the M3. Would I then see the 
> proper 35mm 
> field of view via the eyes? I realize that the non-eyes Summarons are the 
> better
> match with an M2, but I was just wondering.
> 
Hi Stan,

The Summaron with eyes doesn't know or care which camera it is mounted on. 
It will bring up the 50mm framelines in the camera and the eyes with convert 
them to the 35mm lines.

Regards,

Greg