Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alex Do you wear glasses, or do you have any kind of additional eyecup on? Then it's quite normal you don't see the lines. I see them well (only the corners are faded away) on a M6/0.72 though I have to go VERY CLOSE with my eye (the left one in my case, but can see it with the weaker right one, too). Didier >Something that bothers me a bit, even though I only have single, Summocron >50mm/2 (latest) lens that is obviously "glued" on my M6. >Anyway, sometimes I like to play with frame lines preview while shooting >just to check how the composiiton would look with other then 50mm lens and >I'm struck with 28mm frame lines. The vertical lines can be barely visible >simmultenously (I try to carefully center my eye over the finder), whlist >the side lines are totally out of the view. In order to see them, I need >some kind of eye-acrobatics and even then only one-side line can be noticed >at the finder side boundaries, either left or right. >So I wonder how it can be possible to effectively use 28mm frames on M6 >Classic (0.72) with corresponding lens ? What are your experiences ? >Do you just use entire field of view of the finder and accept the fact of >some additional >parts to get on the film that couldn't be seen in the finder ? > >Thanks, Alex