Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Peter! Gerry Gerry Walden 023 8046 3076 > On 21 Jul 2015, at 07:29, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Gerry: How much you see of the viewfinder is a very individual thing--your > eye's lens, the shape of your nose and eye socket, and whether you wear > glasses or not all affect it. I can only see the 50mm frame with glasses. > Without them, I can see the 35mm frame, but not the 28. Fortunately, I > don't use 28mm much. What helps is to have a diopter that matches your > eye. I now use a +0.5 diopter. I went to my eye doctor with my Leica, and > looked through the viewfinder using several different trail lenses, > focusing on something about 6 ft/2m away. It was very clear which one was > best. > > I now use my glasses with the 50 (and they are bifocals, so I can see the > controls and menus with them). For the 35, I have to either move my eye > around a bit, or I put my glasses on a neck cord and take them off my face > when I use the 35mm. One of those compromises I've learned to live with as > my vintage ripens :-) > > --Peter > > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> > wrote: > >> Thanks Herbert for sharing your experiences. I think the reality is that I >> should probably be wearing glasses more than I do, or care to admit to, >> after all I am not getting older am I? Next time I am with the optician I >> will discuss the situation and then probably carry on as before, because I >> am trying to deny the age thing (fairly unsuccessfully I might add!) >> >> Gerry >> >> Gerry Walden >> 023 8046 3076 >> >>> On 21 Jul 2015, at 01:30, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Are you wearing glasses? Do you have to wear glasses when looking >> through the viewfinder? If the answer is yes, one solution to seeing the >> frame lines easily is to take of your glasses, but if necessary, buy and >> screw in a Leica diopter correction lens into the viewfinder opening. >>> >>> Two problems: 1. Taking your glasses on and off is a pain. When I was >> using an M6, I had a neck cord on the ears so I could just taken the off >> end let them hang. 2. Leica wanted (fifteen or twenty years go) almost >> $100 >> for that correction lens. >>> >>> When I burned out on darkroom work, mostly color printing, I quit >> photography for a couple of years, after which I managed to lose my >> darkroom because my wife insisted we replace it with a second bathroom. >> Several years passed before I broke down and bought an M9. By that time, I >> had forgotten all about glasses and diopter corrections?in fact my eyes >> had >> changed to the point that for distant vision, it didn?t really matter >> whether or not I was wearing my trifocals. So, not to be burdened with >> messing around with my glasses, I just kept them on. I had really >> forgotten >> all about that correction lens. My two lenses are 35 and 90, and I use the >> 35 about 99% of the time. So, I just didn?t let the >> hard-to-see-sll-at-once >> 35mm frame lines not bother me. Most of the time, I?m doing some cropping >> on all sides anyway. If, when taking the picture, one of the four sides is >> critical, I just position my eye so that I can easily see the relevant >> frame line. >>> >>> Hope this helps. >>> >>> >>> Herbert Kanner >>> kanner at acm.org >>> 650-326-8204 >>> >>> Question authority and the authorities will question you. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Jul 20, 2015, at 7:20 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> I appreciate there is nothing wrong with my nearly acquired M9 but I >> need a little help. >>>> >>>> With the 35mm lens fitted (the only one I have) the frame lines are at >> the edge of my field of view. There is space around them so the camera is >> fine, it is my eyes. Has anyone any suggestions how I see more of the >> viewfinder? >>>> >>>> Thank you everyone, >>>> >>>> Gerry >>>> >>>> Gerry Walden LRPS >>>> www.gwpics.com <http://www.gwpics.com/> >>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information