Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anyone know of any shop in Oslo or Doha (Qatar) that stocks these diopters? None in India do, but I am in visiting the aforementioned cities in the next one month. I would love to meet any Lugger based in these cities as well. Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:42 AM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:10:13 +0100 > > From: Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Three from this morning.. > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > > > I think it is just a matter of getting used to its quirkiness. The main > thing I find is that the viewfinder image after shooting (i.e. the EVF > image) does not appear sharp but I think that is my failing eyesight. I > would fit an eyesight correction lens (assuming I could find one) but I > don't know how that would then work with the optical viewfinder - would > that be out of focus to me? However, the more I use the camera the more I > love it! > > > > Gerry > > Hi Gerry, > Great images - as usual. > I am at the trifocal stage and one of the things that irritated me about > the X Pro 1 dual view finder was that although I could focus the optical > viewfinder by peering through the second stage of my bi focals I could not > see a sharp picture on the EVF. I went to Leo's, one of the better > Vancouver camera stores (not that there are many left these days) and they > had identified the problem and were stocking a set of Zeiss diopter > correction eyepieces. I tried them all and found that the +1 cleared up my > problem. Both EVF and OVF are now sharp using my glasses. It wasn't cheap; > $40 for the eyepiece, but worth it to get rid of the annoyance. Why they > didn't spend the extra $3 to put diopter correction on the X Pro 1, like > they did with the X100 is beyond me. > Of course, your experience may vary depending on your eyesight. > Cheers > Howard > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >