Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I purchased Leica's 1.25 magnifier yesterday and plan to test it next week. I don't know if it will have an impact of the finder flare problem (that Leica denies the existence of) but I hope it will improve or speed up my low light focus capability. You may want to confirm your rangefinder is aligned correctly. Regards, Greg Steve LeHuray wrote: > >Martin Jangowski writes: > >>_really_ annoying: 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...) >> >>Martin >> > >Martin, > >This seems to be a common complaint of the M6 for many users, others have no >problem at all. I think the reason for this is that you have to lock your >iris deadcenter on the rangefinder patch. Let your iris go off-center and >the patch will flare or whiteout. So the trick is when looking through >viewfinder is to lock onto it in deadcenter and if you see it flare make a >minute adjustment with your eye to bring it back on-center. Also, I think >there are many people who keep their eye socket a small distance from the >viewfinder, for whatever reason, which makes the flare worse. I wear glasses >yet have never had a problem with flare on any of my five Ms. Also as a >technique, I think of my eye socket and two hands as a tripod holding the >camera very steady even at a 1/2 second exposure. I think keeping your iris >on-center will solve your problem. > >sl >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html