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Subject: [Leica] Usign 28mm frame on M6 ?
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Sat Jan 20 16:25:37 2007
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Great prices, but not worth the inconvenience.

Slobodan Dimitrov
http://www.sdimitrovphoto.com/



On Jan 20, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:

> Slobodan,
>
> Thanks for saying this.  I have the CV 35 finder, as well as a  
> Leitz 50, and, as a glasses-impaired Leica user, I have more  
> trouble with the CV edges of the field than I do with the Leitz.  I  
> thought it was unique to my vision.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slobodan Dimitrov"  
> <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Usign 28mm frame on M6 ?
>
>
>> The CV finders have issues with their width angle. One still has  
>> to 'hunt' around to see the sides. I've had number of them, and  
>> wearing glasses, I found them not as forgiving as the Leica  
>> finders. On the Leizt/Leica individual finders, on the other hand,  
>> even eyeglass  wearers can still the whole of the frame lines.
>>
>> Slobodan Dimitrov
>> http://www.sdimitrovphoto.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Michiel Fokkema wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Even for me without glasses the 28 frames are not easy to see. I   
>>> just take the whole frame.
>>> You can consider the 0.58 Leica or even better the coming V/C  
>>> Bessa  with the wide vf.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Michiel Fokkema
>>>
>>> Alex wrote:
>>>> Thank you all responding, yes, I do wear glasses and perhasp  
>>>> this  is indeed a part of the problem, though...xmm...a good  
>>>> excuse to  go a spectacles-removing (sight-correction) eye  
>>>> surgery I'm  planning on within a year or two.... ;-) .
>>>> Chances in some foreseeable future I'll pick a wide angle to   
>>>> broaden up my RF coverage and 28mm is a natural WA for me, but   
>>>> then I'll indeed will consider a dedictaed 28mm finder (CV's)...
>>>> BTW, 35mm frames look indeed the most natural in M6 (and I  
>>>> guess  in most other Leica bodies) - wide yet easily  
>>>> discernable  - just  enough to occupy most of the readily  
>>>> visiable 0.72 finder space,  and this is probably the important  
>>>> aspect of this focal length to  gain such populatiry among Leica  
>>>> M shooters, but I feel it's too  close with my 50mm in  
>>>> coveragewhile 28mm seems to eb spaced wide  enough for me.
>>>> Best, Alex
>>>> Leonard Taupier wrote:
>>>>> Even if I didn't wear glasses (I do), I would get a 28mm  
>>>>> finder  with the .72 body. Even on a .58 body I find I have to  
>>>>> move my  eye from side to side to see everything. But it's  
>>>>> doable. If you  ever get the 28mm, the CV finders are nice and  
>>>>> reasonably priced.
>>>>>
>>>>> Len
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 20, 2007, at 7:16 AM, Alex wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Something that bothers me a bit, even though I only have   
>>>>>> single, Summocron 50mm/2 (latest) lens that is obviously   
>>>>>> "glued" on my M6.
>>>>>> Anyway, sometimes I like to play with frame lines preview  
>>>>>> while shooting just to check how the composiiton would look  
>>>>>> with  other then 50mm lens and I'm struck with 28mm frame  
>>>>>> lines. The  vertical lines can be barely visible  
>>>>>> simmultenously (I try to  carefully center my eye over the  
>>>>>> finder), whlist the side lines  are totally out of the view.  
>>>>>> In order to see them, I need some  kind of eye- acrobatics and  
>>>>>> even then only one-side line can be  noticed at the finder  
>>>>>> side boundaries, either left or right.
>>>>>> So I wonder how it can be possible to effectively use 28mm   
>>>>>> frames  on M6 Classic (0.72) with corresponding lens ? What  
>>>>>> are  your experiences ?
>>>>>> Do you just use entire field of view of the finder and accept   
>>>>>> the fact of some additional
>>>>>> parts to get on the film that couldn't be seen in the finder ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, Alex
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Michiel Fokkema
>>>
>>>
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In reply to: Message from alex at zabrovsky.com (Alex) ([Leica] Usign 28mm frame on M6 ?)
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