Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/16

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Subject: [Leica] M6 diopter
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Thu Nov 16 14:55:13 2006

I believe that those Nikon SLRs are -1 with no corrective lens fitted. M's I 
think, are -.5.
I need an expert to explain how the apparent viewing distance works 
Cheers
That shutter speed dial is blurry
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Leonard Taupier
Sent: Friday, 17 November 2006 03:08
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 diopter

I need +.5 on my Nikons as well including the earliest Nikon F and FE.
  Interesting.

Len

On Nov 16, 2006, at 10:42 AM, telyt@earthlink.net wrote:

> Leonard Taupier <len-1@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Boy my eyes must be very strange. I need diopter correction for every
>> SLR I own... But I don't need any correction when I use my M
>> cameras.
>
> The apparent viewing distance on the M cameras is probably  
> different from
> industry standard.  I need a +0.5 diopter correction for my Nikons  
> and for
> the SL2 and R4, but none for the SL or Leicaflex Standard.  IIRC  
> (reaching
> way back into the cobwebs) Leitz changed the apparent viewing  
> distance of
> their SLR viewfinders between the SL and the SL2.  The idea behind  
> the SL's
> viewfinder was that it would be comfortable to use with older eyes,  
> while
> the SL2 and later SLR viewfinder conformed to industry standards.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
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Replies: Reply from wlarsen at ocsnet.net (Wiilliam Larsen, AICP) ([Leica] M6 diopter)
In reply to: Message from len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier) ([Leica] M6 diopter)