[Leica] Viewfinder problem

[boulanger.croissant at gmail.com (Peter Klein)]

Gerry:  How much you see of the viewfinder is a very individual thing--your
eye's lens, the shape of your nose and eye socket, and whether you wear
glasses or not all affect it.  I can only see the 50mm frame with glasses.
Without them, I can see the 35mm frame, but not the 28. Fortunately, I
don't use 28mm much. What helps is to have a diopter that matches your
eye.  I now use a +0.5 diopter.  I went to my eye doctor with my Leica, and
looked through the viewfinder using several different trail lenses,
focusing on something about 6 ft/2m away. It was very clear which one was
best.

I now use my glasses with the 50 (and they are bifocals, so I can see the
controls and menus with them).  For the 35, I have to either move my eye
around a bit, or I put my glasses on a neck cord and take them off my face
when I use the 35mm.  One of those compromises I've learned to live with as
my vintage ripens :-)

--Peter



On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Herbert for sharing your experiences. I think the reality is that I
> should probably be wearing glasses more than I do, or care to admit to,
> after all I am not getting older am I? Next time I am with the optician I
> will discuss the situation and then probably carry on as before, because I
> am trying to deny the age thing (fairly unsuccessfully I might add!)
>
> Gerry
>
> Gerry Walden
> 023 8046 3076
>
> > On 21 Jul 2015, at 01:30, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Are you wearing glasses? Do you have to wear glasses when looking
> through the viewfinder? If the answer is yes, one solution to seeing the
> frame lines easily is to take of your glasses, but if necessary, buy and
> screw in a Leica diopter correction lens into the viewfinder opening.
> >
> > Two problems: 1. Taking your glasses on and off is a pain. When I was
> using an M6, I had a neck cord on the ears so I could just taken the off
> end let them hang. 2. Leica wanted (fifteen or twenty years go) almost $100
> for that correction lens.
> >
> > When I burned out on darkroom work, mostly color printing, I quit
> photography for a couple of years, after which I managed to lose my
> darkroom because my wife insisted we replace it with a second bathroom.
> Several years passed before I broke down and bought an M9. By that time, I
> had forgotten all about glasses and diopter corrections?in fact my eyes had
> changed to the point that for distant vision, it didn?t really matter
> whether or not I was wearing my trifocals. So, not to be burdened with
> messing around with my glasses, I just kept them on. I had really forgotten
> all about that correction lens. My two lenses are 35 and 90, and I use the
> 35 about 99% of the time. So, I just didn?t let the hard-to-see-sll-at-once
> 35mm frame lines not bother me. Most of the time, I?m doing some cropping
> on all sides anyway. If, when taking the picture, one of the four sides is
> critical, I just position my eye so that I can easily see the relevant
> frame line.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> >
> > Herbert Kanner
> > kanner at acm.org
> > 650-326-8204
> >
> > Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jul 20, 2015, at 7:20 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I appreciate there is nothing wrong with my nearly acquired M9 but I
> need a little help.
> >>
> >> With the 35mm lens fitted (the only one I have) the frame lines are at
> the edge of my field of view. There is space around them so the camera is
> fine, it is my eyes. Has anyone any suggestions how I see more of the
> viewfinder?
> >>
> >> Thank you everyone,
> >>
> >> Gerry
> >>
> >> Gerry Walden LRPS
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> >> +44 (0)797 287 7932
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