Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 Wide Angle Body = reduced vf magnification?
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:26:01 -0700
 
Jem,

This confirms what I always thought.

John 

> From: Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>
> 
> 
> I understand perfectly about that modification, short of modifying the
> profile on the focusing cam on the lens (as the bespectacled 35mm /M3 lenses
> were) there is no way to maintain correct rangefinder focusing with a pair
> of goggles on the front of the lens. Ask Reinhold Mueller, the engineer who
> did these mods (on 2 or more lenses) for Tom, he'll tell ya!
> 
> Now Tom would say that there's little need for rangefinder focusing with a
> 21mm lens, and he'd be right, if that's what suits him. For myself, although
> I was most interested in having this mod. done, I forwent it as I figured
> I'd be one step forward and two steps back.
> 
>