Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 .58 or .72
From: John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 17:00:38 -0700

I do not wear glasses and I love my 0.58x/35/1.4A combo. I like the 
wide view with a great deal of room around the framelines. However if 
you are only going to have one body with a mix of wides and teles, the 
0.72x body is a better choice.

John Collier

On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 12:07 PM, Lew Schwartz wrote:

> 	I'm shopping for my first M6 (must have 28mm framelines), but I
> don't understand why anyone would choose the .58 finder which stops at
> 90 and has less magnification over the .72, larger image plus the 135 (
> not that I need the 135, I basically never use anything longer than
> 90mm) lines kind of "for free."
> 	So, what's the idea behind the .58?

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