Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great prices, but not worth the inconvenience. Slobodan Dimitrov http://www.sdimitrovphoto.com/ On Jan 20, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Jim Nichols wrote: > Slobodan, > > Thanks for saying this. I have the CV 35 finder, as well as a > Leitz 50, and, as a glasses-impaired Leica user, I have more > trouble with the CV edges of the field than I do with the Leitz. I > thought it was unique to my vision. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" > <s.dimitrov@charter.net> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:49 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Usign 28mm frame on M6 ? > > >> The CV finders have issues with their width angle. One still has >> to 'hunt' around to see the sides. I've had number of them, and >> wearing glasses, I found them not as forgiving as the Leica >> finders. On the Leizt/Leica individual finders, on the other hand, >> even eyeglass wearers can still the whole of the frame lines. >> >> Slobodan Dimitrov >> http://www.sdimitrovphoto.com/ >> >> >> >> On Jan 20, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Michiel Fokkema wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Even for me without glasses the 28 frames are not easy to see. I >>> just take the whole frame. >>> You can consider the 0.58 Leica or even better the coming V/C >>> Bessa with the wide vf. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Michiel Fokkema >>> >>> Alex wrote: >>>> Thank you all responding, yes, I do wear glasses and perhasp >>>> this is indeed a part of the problem, though...xmm...a good >>>> excuse to go a spectacles-removing (sight-correction) eye >>>> surgery I'm planning on within a year or two.... ;-) . >>>> Chances in some foreseeable future I'll pick a wide angle to >>>> broaden up my RF coverage and 28mm is a natural WA for me, but >>>> then I'll indeed will consider a dedictaed 28mm finder (CV's)... >>>> BTW, 35mm frames look indeed the most natural in M6 (and I >>>> guess in most other Leica bodies) - wide yet easily >>>> discernable - just enough to occupy most of the readily >>>> visiable 0.72 finder space, and this is probably the important >>>> aspect of this focal length to gain such populatiry among Leica >>>> M shooters, but I feel it's too close with my 50mm in >>>> coveragewhile 28mm seems to eb spaced wide enough for me. >>>> Best, Alex >>>> Leonard Taupier wrote: >>>>> Even if I didn't wear glasses (I do), I would get a 28mm >>>>> finder with the .72 body. Even on a .58 body I find I have to >>>>> move my eye from side to side to see everything. But it's >>>>> doable. If you ever get the 28mm, the CV finders are nice and >>>>> reasonably priced. >>>>> >>>>> Len >>>>> >>>>> On Jan 20, 2007, at 7:16 AM, Alex wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>>>> information >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>>> information >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>> information >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Michiel Fokkema >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information