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Subject: [Leica] Usign 28mm frame on M6 ?
From: michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema)
Date: Sat Jan 20 12:28:27 2007
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Hi,

Even for me without glasses the 28 frames are not easy to see. I just 
take the whole frame.
You can consider the 0.58 Leica or even better the coming V/C Bessa with 
the wide vf.

Best regards,

Michiel Fokkema

Alex wrote:
> Thank you all responding, yes, I do wear glasses and perhasp this is 
> indeed a part of the problem, though...xmm...a good excuse to go a 
> spectacles-removing (sight-correction) eye surgery I'm planning on 
> within a year or two.... ;-) .
> Chances in some foreseeable future I'll pick a wide angle to broaden up 
> my RF coverage and 28mm is a natural WA for me, but then I'll indeed 
> will consider a dedictaed 28mm finder (CV's)...
> BTW, 35mm frames look indeed the most natural in M6 (and I guess in most 
> other Leica bodies) - wide yet easily discernable  - just enough to 
> occupy most of the readily visiable 0.72 finder space, and this is 
> probably the important aspect of this focal length to gain such 
> populatiry among Leica M shooters, but I feel it's too close with my 
> 50mm in coveragewhile 28mm seems to eb spaced wide enough for me.
> 
> Best, Alex
> 
> Leonard Taupier wrote:
> 
>> Even if I didn't wear glasses (I do), I would get a 28mm finder with  
>> the .72 body. Even on a .58 body I find I have to move my eye from  
>> side to side to see everything. But it's doable. If you ever get the  
>> 28mm, the CV finders are nice and reasonably priced.
>>
>> Len
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2007, at 7:16 AM, Alex wrote:
>>
>>> Something that bothers me a bit, even though I only have single,  
>>> Summocron 50mm/2 (latest) lens that is obviously "glued" on my M6.
>>> Anyway, sometimes I like to play with frame lines preview while  
>>> shooting just to check how the composiiton would look with other  
>>> then 50mm lens and I'm struck with 28mm frame lines. The vertical  
>>> lines can be barely visible simmultenously (I try to carefully  
>>> center my eye over the finder), whlist the side lines are totally  
>>> out of the view. In order to see them, I need some kind of eye- 
>>> acrobatics and even then only one-side line can be noticed at the  
>>> finder side boundaries, either left or right.
>>> So I wonder how it can be possible to effectively use 28mm frames  on 
>>> M6 Classic (0.72) with corresponding lens ? What are your  experiences ?
>>> Do you just use entire field of view of the finder and accept the  
>>> fact of some additional
>>> parts to get on the film that couldn't be seen in the finder ?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Alex
>>>
>>>
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-- 
Best regards,

Michiel Fokkema


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