Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's interesting you would be having trouble with the M6, coming from the Mamiya 7, as I have had just the opposite experience. I find the M6 viewfinder far easier to work with. To be fair, though, the .85 viewfinder is more prone to flare than the .72 (especially the new coated version on the Leica M7), and requires more eye centering to get rid of the patch flare. I have found it well nigh impossible to accurately focus the 150mm on the Mamiya 7 at full aperture, while I can nail focus almost every time with an M6 .85x and the Summicron 90 ASPH. The other thing that drives me nuts about the Mamiya is the inability to focus close enough to produce intimate portraits of people. - --Jim - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Jangowski" <martin@jangowski.de> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 3:21 AM Subject: [Leica] M6 0.85 finder problems <snip>...while the Mamiya finder is bright and the focusing is > very easy, the focusing spot of the Leica was very often unusuable. > Especially when using the camera in portrait orientation, the center spot > got very bright and didn't show any details, making distance measurement > impossible. I have to wear glasses and had to move the eye into a very > specific position to be able to focus correctly. The Leica films show a > large percentage of negatives with wrong focusing (sometimes completely > off...). Ok, the 90mm Summicron was used wide open at 1-2m distance, and > the zone of sharpness is much narrower than I had expected, but I never > had so much bad focused pictures before. The Mamiya finder didn't ever > showed such a problem... am I too dumb to use a Leica correctly, is this a > general Leica problem or could this be a problem with this specific > camera? - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html