Re: [Leica] Senseless design- High Eyepoint Viewfinder searcher.

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Hear! Hear!
The reason I switched from the R7 to the SL was that I can see the entire
image in the SL, and it is brighter. The R7, an admittedly fine camera, was
bothersome in that I had to do a lot of squirming and roly-poly gyrations,
squinting and making ugly faces to see the image, AND read the imformation
display! Couldn't use it at the theme park- people thought I was a
ride/exhibit, and started to line up!
Dan (Squinting in the light)

- ----- Original Message -----
From: <InfinityDT@aol.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Senseless design


> In a message dated 6/23/99 10:33:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> mrabiner@concentric.net writes:
>
> << The M5 bombs so they say "why not just stick a meter where the self
>  timer is on the M4 it just might work?" I call that the kind of inspired
>  thinking which has put most of us here on this list. It's called the M6.
>  The idea worked you could put it mildly. I bought a little self timer
>  thing. Never used it.
>  Never had a camera closer to my heart than my M6. I guess self timers
>  are not a big thing with me.
>  Mark Rabiner >>
>
> Too bad some of that inspired thinking couldn't have resulted in a
> high-eyepoint viewfinder.  I wager to say that a good chunk of people in
the
> M6's market wear glasses.  Not everyone can wear contacts or feels like
> getting Lasik'd.  Correction eyepieces are no solution if you have a
really
> strong prescription and have to put glasses on and off to compose or to
see
> the camera controls.  The 28mm frame in my M6 is useless to me (the 35 is
> barely visible).  At least I can buy a Leica 28mm finder.  The .85 model
I'd
> like, I'd have to pay a fortune for a "collectible" 35 finder and give up
> one-window focus/framing which is more necessary with the 35.  Of all the
> things people want Leica to do to the M6 that would require major
redesigns,
> the HP viewfinder eyepiece wouldn't.
>
> DT
>
> DT