Re: [Leica] Leica MP flare supression

["SonC \(Sonny Carter\)" <sonc@sonc.com>]

BD sez:
> The tape is on the ridged finder window?

Yes.  I use Scotch Magic, (the expensive stuff. I think it is single
cask.)

Sonny


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From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:37 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica MP flare supression


> The tape is on the ridged finder window?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of SonC
> (Sonny Carter)
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:07 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica MP flare supression
>
>
> Grégoire
>     Saturday night,  I was playing with my M6, and decided to see
when
> and where flare occurred.  I peeled off the scotch magic tape  from
the
> rangefinder window that suppresses the phenomenon, and pointed the
> camera at a light just beside my chair.
>
> I found that as long as my eye was centered, that is, I could see
all of
> the framelines, I got no flare at all.  When I  held the camera in a
> fashion that obscured a frameline, right or left, I could get some
> flare.
>
> I'm glad that the MP addresses this problem. I am also glad that a
half
> inch piece of scotch tape also addresses the problem.
>
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grégoire Vandenschrick" <vandenschrick@geog.ucl.ac.be>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:54 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Leica MP flare supression
>
>
> > Just a fact, if some of you are interested:
> >
> > there was the Laica days at the Photo Alpha Shop here in Brussels
> the 12 13
> > and 14 of june.
> >
> > At this occasion, I had the opportunity to try everuthing from
> Leica.
> >
> > I searched with my Leica M6 TTL a very flare prone situation, and
> compared
> > the M6 TTL with the MP.
> > The result is quite amazing, where you cannot do anything with the
> TTL, the
> > MP is cristal clear.
> >
> > The flare in the TTL is more present when the eye is off axis,
wich
> is
> > happening very often as I wear glasses (my eye is more distant to
> the
> > viewfinder, hence the error placement is more sensible). I also
> noticed
> > while studying the phenomenon that looked at some distance (let's
> say 20 cm)
> > and having the eye at infinity, the flare has a hollow circle
shape,
> in wich
> > you can still see the image through the right little window, the
> outer
> > circle beeing white out. I could find the same white out flare in
> the MP
> > telemeter window, but only in pushing the eye to the most
decentered
> > position you can have in the viewfinder, surely not a normal
> position, even
> > a little usual decentered position for a glasses wearing one.
> >
> > So my experience is that the MP is far better regarding the flare
> problem
> > than the M6 TTL and M7.
> >
> > I could also observe that the direct reflexions in the windows of
> the
> > viewfinder seen from the face of the camera is blueish for the MP
> and the M7
> > present at the demo, different than the normal colored reflexion
of
> the M6
> > TTL windows. I don't know what's the difference this coating is
> giving.
> >
> > I more and more think of buying one day an MP, in place of an M7,
> for this
> > advantage, and also for the appeal added by the different retro
> buttons (I'm
> > that kind sensible to this, more than to an open priority program,
I
> managed
> > it well with the M6 TTL)
> >
> > If you had experience,similar or different, I'm interested
> >
> > Grégoire Vandenschrick
> >
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