Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/07

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Subject: Re: M3 DOF in viewfinder?
From: doctorc8@stout.entertain.com (Henry Chu)
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 22:52:09 -0600

>>
>Could some please explain how this feature works.  My M3 has the marks you
>are all talking about, but how do you use them?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Harrison McClary
>hmphoto@delphi.com
>http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto

Harrison,

These little depth of field notches are used with the 50mm lens.  If the
viewfinder and rangefinder images are no farther apart than the upper
(wider) notch, then acceptable sharpness will be attained at f/16.  The
lower (narrower) notch is the indicator for f/5.6.

Henry