Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, Borrow one of the magnifiers and use it with your M3. I believe that you will change your mind regarding the 135 on an M. Cheers. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 7/29/06, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: > > > On Jul 29, 2006, at 2:24 PM,Don wrote: > > >> As the proud owner of a new to you 135 lens I would suggest that you > >> pick > >> up > >> an eyepiece magnifier. Leica makes a good one and their is one > >> available > >> in > >> the Japanese market that offers more magnification and diopter > >> correction > >> to > >> boot. Benefits, makes the 135 frameline more like a 50mm FOV, > >> increases > >> RF > >> accuracy especially at the difficult to judge mid distances where you > >> don't > >> see detail in the viewfinder but dof is still critical if you are > >> using > >> apertures wider than F8. Downsides would mainly be reduced eye > >> relief and > >> a > >> decrease in viewfinder brightness. > > My M3 with its .92 viewfinder magnification has sufficient RF accuracy > to focus my 135 mm f3.5 Canon lens without difficulty. I would think > that Hoppy's M6 viewfinder with its .85 magnification would be > sufficient to focus a slightly smaller aperture 135 mm Elmar > adequately. Unless you want to shoot flower pictures up close with the > 135, I don't see much of a problem. Both cameras will focus the 135 mm > lens equally well at infinity. ;-) > > However, with either camera the 135 mm finder frame is so small that it > is difficult to compose a picture. It's more like aiming a small bore > rifle. It's OK for sports where you can see the action coming into the > center of the frame but not much good for anything else. The sad fact > is that the RF Leica is not really suitable for lenses much longer than > 90 mm. I've finessed the frame field issue by buying a Russian Contax > clone adjustable accessory viewfinder. This magnifies the image so that > it is actually useable. It's a pain to have to move my eye from the > camera viewfinder/rangefinder to the finder. It actually would be > easier to do it on a IIIf. But I guess that's what SLRs are for. > > Larry Z > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >