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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 0.85 finder problems
From: "Stuart Phillips" <stuart.phillips@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 12:44:09 -0500
References: <200211031310.gA3DAU310217@panix1.panix.com>

Out of interest, do you use it on a .85?

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Rei Shinozuka" <shino@panix.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 0.85 finder problems


> it  sounds like your problem could be solved by:
>
> http://www.konermann.net/homepage.html (go to "shade")
>
> it works for me.
>
> -rei
>
> > From: Martin Jangowski <martin@jangowski.de>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > after several years of "stamp-sized negative" bashing I recently
couldn't
> > resist any longer and bought a like-new M6-TTL with the 0.85 finder and
a
> > Summicron 2/90.
> >
> > A few days ago, I took it for a first test ride. We had a big family
> > meeting on Nov. 1th, so I took my faithful Mamiya 7 with the 4/80mm lens
> > and the M6. I intended to make totals and group photos with the Mamiya
and
> > take portraits with the M6. The meeting was at the cemetery where our
> > ancestors are buried, there were 8/8 clouds, ideal for portraiture in
the
> > open.
> >
> > After using the Mamiya 7 (and the Mamiya 6) for a few years now, the
Leica
> > was not very different. Since the light didn't change, I took a incident
> > reading with a Gossen lightmeter and ignored the builtin light meter of
> > the M6, using Delta 400 in the Mamiya and Fomapan 100 in the M6.
Switching
> > between cameras for totals and detail shoots was easy, but one thing was
> > _really_ annoying: while the Mamiya finder is bright and the focusing is
> > very easy, the focusing spot of the Leica was very often unusuable.
> > Especially when using the camera in portrait orientation, the center
spot
> > got very bright and didn't show any details, making distance measurement
> > impossible. I have to wear glasses and had to move the eye into a very
> > specific position to be able to focus correctly. The Leica films show a
> > large percentage of negatives with wrong focusing (sometimes completely
> > off...). Ok, the 90mm Summicron was used wide open at 1-2m distance, and
> > the zone of sharpness is much narrower than I had expected, but I never
> > had so much bad focused pictures before. The Mamiya finder didn't ever
> > showed such a problem... am I too dumb to use a Leica correctly, is this
a
> > general Leica problem or could this be a problem with this specific
> > camera?
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > | Martin Jangowski                         E-Mail: Martin@Jangowski.de|
> > |                        Netzwerke und Multimedia                     |
> > | Voice: +49 7946/940790                         Fax: +49 7946/940791 |
> > | Snail Mail: Von-Olnhausen Str. 4            74626 Bretzfeld Germany |
>
> --
> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
> Ridgewood, New Jersey
>
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