Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/24

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Subject: [Leica] Eyepiece magnifier
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan dimitrov)
Date: Tue Jul 24 08:35:46 2007
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Thanks for the heads up on this.
I was very tempted to get a .85 eyepiece.

s.d.


On Jul 23, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Frank Dernie wrote:

> Yes, I think the 0.8 was a waste for me. I bought them both  
> together from Hong Kong.
> Frank
>
> On 23 Jul, 2007, at 19:37, Frank Filippone wrote:
>
>> Hey, Frank..... sounds like getting the .8 magnifier is a waste of  
>> $$$?  At
>> least this is what I read into your comments on visibility.....
>>
>> I think there is little disagreement over  the useability of the 1.25
>> magnifier.. it is the .8 that seems a bit harder to nail down....
>>
>> Frank Filippone
>> red735i@earthlink.net
>>
>> OK, I just hauled out my sadly neglected M6. With my specs on and the
>> standard 0.72 viewfinder the 35mm frames are at the extremes of my
>> view without moving my eye around and also coincide with the extreme
>> edges of the viewfinder window, that is to say, outside the 35mm
>> framelines is black. I can only see the 28mm framelines by moving my
>> eye around and, depending on how the framelines are moved by the
>> parallax correction mechanism, the position of some framelines
>> extends beyond the extreme edges of the viewfinder window, that is to
>> say, what I see through the viewfinder is less than that bounded by
>> the 28mm framelines.
>>
>> With the 0.85 magnifier fitted nothing effectively changes for me.
>> The view has slight barrel distortion and, perhaps because the device
>> pushes the eye another 6mm or so further from the viewfinder, what I
>> see is exactly as described above but a bit smaller. The 35mm
>> framelines are still all I can see without moving my eye.
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest) ([Leica] Eyepiece magnifier)
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Message from Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie) ([Leica] Eyepiece magnifier)
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