Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/22

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Goody Review (long)
From: Alan Ball <AlanBall@csi.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 06:40:35 +0200

On Monday, June 22, 1998 7:54 PM, Charles Dunlap 
[SMTP:cdunlap@emerald.ucsc.edu] wrote:
> If you can get to a Leica dealer then you owe it to yourself to go and 
look
> through the viewfinders. I can type til I'm blue in the fingers and not
> help you know what is tolerable in a viewfinder. If you want to use the
> 35mm lens primarily and wear glasses then the regular M6 is the better
> choice from an objective standpoint. But you might decide that the M6 HM 
is
> acceptable (if you get a 90mm to go with the 35 then you have a very 
good,
> compact travel set-up).

Or the other way round, no ? After all, till last January, when the HM 
appeard out of the blue, M6 afficionados had been spreading the word that 
the M6 was perfectly OK with any lens in the line. I remember numerous 
threads on the subject, and I bought my M6 + 90mm f2.8 feeling quite 
secure. Oh, and it works: M6 + 90mmf2.8 works very well even wide open and 
even at close distances. In order to maintain an acceptable level of 
(in)sanity, I have nevertheless refused to look into an HM viewfinder up to 
now...

Alan
Brussels-Belgium.