RE: [Leica] Back to Venice

["Dan Honemann" <danh@selectsa.com>]

> Last year I had bad problems with M6 rangefinder flare in Venice and
> Florence, but this year I tried moving my eye from side to side (as
> suggested by the Solms repair department), and I was always able to
> get the rangefinder patch to clear enough to make the rangefinder
> useable. It's a slow & fiddly procedure (eye position is very
> critical), but it seems to work. But it remains a bad mis-feature
> which made my glad I'd made the 'flex my main camera for this trip.

Doug,

Black tape over the framelines window (leaving a bit of the window clear so
you don't loose your framelines altogether) eliminates the RF flare.  Give
it a try.

Regards,
Dan