Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I now have a Summicron 35mm f2.0. >I heard many of you on the list saying that with M6HM it is difficult to >view the framelines of the 35mm if at all when you wear spectacles like >I do. Now, I have a regular M6 and I do not see the entire 35mm frame >when I look through the viewfinder. I'm looking through the little hole >but am I handling correctly?? Do you mean that you find it difficult to see all of the 35mm frame lines or that some of them are missing? I assume the former. This might be true when wearing glasses. If you want an idea of how the 35mm frameline on the M6HM looks then look at the 28mm frameline on the regular M6. The 35mm frameline is almost as far towards the edges as the 28mm frame on the regular M6. I wear contact lenses and I don't mind the 35mm frameline on the M6HM. It's not quite as far out as the 28mm on the regular and the difference in the size of the 90mm frameline (although only 20% in acuality) is night and day in practice. I can see that with the HM I would be using the 90 more and more effectively. The bigger rangefinder patch is great too; focussing seems faster and more certain since there's more image to use in judging the match. - -Charlie