Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 1.25x magnifier "in person"
From: Gilbert Plantinga <gilplant@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 22:54:31 -0400

I thought all M2, M4 (including M4-2 & M4-P) and M6 (except .85 and .58)
viewfinders were the same .72 magnification. How can they have "shrunk the
framelines?"

Gilbert
 
on 10/14/01 9:10 PM, John Collier at jbcollier@powersurfr.com wrote:

> It should be pointed out that this is for the six frameline finders. The
> other finders have the framelines covering a slightly larger area. So on my
> TTL 0.72 with the 1.25x magnifier mount I too can easily see the 35mm
> framelines. However on my M2 with the 1.25x magnifier mounted I cannot quite
> see all of the 35mm framelines at one glance. Leica shrunk the 35/50/90/135
> framelines to squeeze in the 28mm framelines.
> 
> John Collier
> 
>> From: leica@davidmorton.org
>> 
>> 1.25x on .72 body. Without glasses the whole 35mm frame is visible, with
>> glasses I can't see the whole 50mm frame, but the 75mm frame and smaller are
>> fine.
>> 
>> 1.25x on .85 body. Without glasses the whole 50mm frame is easily visible,
>> with glasses the 75mm frame is just visible, and the smaller frames are
>> fine.

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