Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/16

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Subject: [Leica] M6 diopter
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Thu Nov 16 15:30:41 2006

Thanks, William. I'll do some Richard research.
Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Wiilliam Larsen, AICP
Sent: Friday, 17 November 2006 09:04
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 diopter

G Hopkinson wrote:

>I believe that those Nikon SLRs are -1 with no corrective lens fitted. M's 
>I think, are -.5.
>I need an expert to explain how the apparent viewing distance works 
>Cheers
>That shutter speed dial is blurry
>Hoppy
>  
>
>the rangefinder camera viewfinder is an infinity optical finder... in other 
>words you need to correct for your distance vision...
this is a big pia if you need glasses for reading.... you are (at least I) 
are going to need glasses to read the external dials,
etc.  I am currently using a canon 20d hooked into  Lecia R lenses... I 
don't chimp... just glance at the histogram...
>  
>
This topic is also well covered in the archives with excellent input by 
Richard Clompus.

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