Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M2/M3/M4-P/M6 Rangefinder - Was M6 classic and 90mm lenses
From: John Brownlow <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:20:23 +0100

on 19/4/00 1:49 AM, Mike Quinn at mlquinn@san.rr.com wrote:

>> Well, I was wondering, could the M6
>> viewfinder be designed to flare if one is not looking through it dead
>> straight, so that focussing accuracy is improved?  Any M3 users care to
>> comment? 

Hooray!! Yet more evidence of what my wife claims, that the LUG is a
sinister cult. In this example, we have the well known "Leica is always
right, even when it's wrong" mantra. Also known as the "It's not a fault,
it's a feature" liturgy.

Incidentally, my M4-P and M2 both show rf flare to a certain extent. The
M4-P is worse than the M2. The idea that this problem is confined to the M6
is, in my humble experience, wrong. Of course, someone's probably got a
graph somewhere which shows that neither of my cameras can possibly suffer
from this problem, and the Leica police are even now on their way, so hey.

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Johnny Deadman

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