Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/15

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Subject: [Leica] M8 Impressions, Pro and Con, correction
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Wed Nov 15 16:13:32 2006
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Yes, so the optomotrist told me yesterday: 1.5 now and 2.5 when you  
turn 60 and onwards :-(

On 16/11/2006, at 10:36, Leonard Taupier wrote:

> Good for now. But it sneaks up on you as Tina can attest to.
>
> Len
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote:
>
>> I will not have that problem for a while, anything beyond arms  
>> length is perfect, so I'll be hanging them around the neck just  
>> above the M6 whipping them on to set up etc and then happily  
>> shooting "raw" again ;-)
>>
>> On 16/11/2006, at 10:04, Leonard Taupier wrote:
>>
>>> Alastair,
>>>
>>> I shot with a M2 and M3 at times. If you do you better put  
>>> something over the viewfinder to protect your glasses. It's metal  
>>> not rubber and can be pretty sharp. I think Stephen still sells a  
>>> little sticky donut for that purpose. What I do is punch a hole  
>>> in a band-aid and then with scissors cut around the hole to fit  
>>> the eyepiece. I'm still walking around with a scratch over the  
>>> right lens the first and only time I didn't use protection. Just  
>>> a word of advice.
>>>
>>> Len

In reply to: Message from images at InfoAve.Net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] M8 Impressions, Pro and Con, correction)
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Message from len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier) ([Leica] M8 Impressions, Pro and Con, correction)
Message from firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] M8 Impressions, Pro and Con, correction)
Message from len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier) ([Leica] M8 Impressions, Pro and Con, correction)