[Leica] Re: M6 0.85 finder problems

[Chris Chen <furcafe@yahoo.com>]

If you can live without the M6's built-in meter, you
can also solve your VF flare problems by trading it in
for an M3.

Chris

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it  sounds like your problem could be solved by:

http://www.konermann.net/homepage.html (go to "shade")

it works for me.

- - -rei

> From: Martin Jangowski <martin@jangowski.de>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> after several years of "stamp-sized negative"
bashing I recently 
couldn't
> resist any longer and bought a like-new M6-TTL with
the 0.85 finder 
and a
> Summicron 2/90. 
> 
> A few days ago, I took it for a first test ride. We
had a big family
> meeting on Nov. 1th, so I took my faithful Mamiya 7
with the 4/80mm 
lens
> and the M6. I intended to make totals and group
photos with the 
Mamiya and
> take portraits with the M6. The meeting was at the
cemetery where our
> ancestors are buried, there were 8/8 clouds, ideal
for portraiture in 
the
> open.
> 
> After using the Mamiya 7 (and the Mamiya 6) for a
few years now, the 
Leica
> was not very different. Since the light didn't
change, I took a 
incident
> reading with a Gossen lightmeter and ignored the
builtin light meter 
of
> the M6, using Delta 400 in the Mamiya and Fomapan
100 in the M6. 
Switching
> between cameras for totals and detail shoots was
easy, but one thing 
was
> _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...). 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?
> 
> Martin

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