Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/16

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Subject: [Leica] WTB: Leica CL, now framing
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Fri Mar 16 07:49:54 2007
References: <a2f8f4470703160140m6414941fu8998170072be3ccc@mail.gmail.com> <45FA92E9.3010904@verizon.net> <a2f8f4470703160619oe9832aapffa66d86b2d424fb@mail.gmail.com> <01dc01c767da$41a8c720$1eac28d1@fumcratr6dmly7> <45FAB2C1.3020606@verizon.net>

A while back I picked up some cheap Helios viewfinders. They have
framelines for 35, 85 and 135.

They are "conservative" frames, that is, they are dimensioned so that
you might get too much in your final shot (showing you too little in
the actual frame).

I found out that the 85 was pretty useless for the Jupiter-9 (an
85/2.0 Sonnar lens from the former Soviet Union). But since it was not
showing all you got, it was showing a pretty comfortable 90mm.

I just checked. The 35mm lines are also now showing all you will get.
Comparing the 35mm on the Helios finder to the 40mm finder on my
busted CL, it is a pretty close match.

Daniel

On 3/16/07, bill harting <vintagebill@verizon.net> wrote:
> Jeff, I use a 40mm Summicron on a 3 and a 7, and understand Daniel's
> concern -- there is a danger of the chop (or at least a trim), but I
> kind of like the results with a chop, sometimes, and probably just do
> not frame as tightly as he does. If absolute framing accuracy is
> essential, I can always use the view camera, or the enlarger... (ha). I
> guess I don't ever regard the framelines as a guarantee, but more as an
> approximation.
>
> bill
>
> Jeff S. Matsler wrote:
> > Interesting.  I use a Rokkor 40/2.8 on my M3 and M5 (as well as on my
> > CLE) and it seems to work fine.  I haven't used it much for close-up
> > work though. I use my Summicron DR for those.
> >
> > Jeff M
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@gmail.com>
> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 8:19 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] WTB: Leica CL
> >
> >
> >> I tried using the whole M3 view of the viewfinder (= about 35 mm ... I
> >> even have 35mm framelines in my M3) and I chopped off all kinds of
> >> heads.
> >
> >
> >
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In reply to: Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] WTB: Leica CL)
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Message from dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] WTB: Leica CL)
Message from jeffmatsler at amaonline.com (Jeff S. Matsler) ([Leica] WTB: Leica CL)
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