Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/19

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Subject: [Leica] Lousy M 6 frame lines
From: goldman@math.umn.edu
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 20:59:24 -0500 (CDT)
 
	I have used Leica M's as my primary camera since 1963 and Doug
Richardson is correct.  The frame lines on the M6 stink compared with the
M2 - M5.  In fact the 90 lines are so bad that I hardly ever use a 90 on
the M6.  I have heard from a very good repairman that Leica replaced a
prism with a mirror in the M6 finder system (as compared to the M4) and
this accounts for many of the problems.  Also note that we used to get the
corners as part of the frame, but no longer.
Jay Goldman