Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Herbert for sharing your experiences. I think the reality is that I should probably be wearing glasses more than I do, or care to admit to, after all I am not getting older am I? Next time I am with the optician I will discuss the situation and then probably carry on as before, because I am trying to deny the age thing (fairly unsuccessfully I might add!) Gerry Gerry Walden 023 8046 3076 > On 21 Jul 2015, at 01:30, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > > > Are you wearing glasses? Do you have to wear glasses when looking through > the viewfinder? If the answer is yes, one solution to seeing the frame > lines easily is to take of your glasses, but if necessary, buy and screw > in a Leica diopter correction lens into the viewfinder opening. > > Two problems: 1. Taking your glasses on and off is a pain. When I was > using an M6, I had a neck cord on the ears so I could just taken the off > end let them hang. 2. Leica wanted (fifteen or twenty years go) almost > $100 for that correction lens. > > When I burned out on darkroom work, mostly color printing, I quit > photography for a couple of years, after which I managed to lose my > darkroom because my wife insisted we replace it with a second bathroom. > Several years passed before I broke down and bought an M9. By that time, I > had forgotten all about glasses and diopter corrections?in fact my eyes > had changed to the point that for distant vision, it didn?t really matter > whether or not I was wearing my trifocals. So, not to be burdened with > messing around with my glasses, I just kept them on. I had really > forgotten all about that correction lens. My two lenses are 35 and 90, and > I use the 35 about 99% of the time. So, I just didn?t let the > hard-to-see-sll-at-once 35mm frame lines not bother me. Most of the time, > I?m doing some cropping on all sides anyway. If, when taking the picture, > one of the four sides is critical, I just position my eye so that I can > easily see the relevant frame line. > > Hope this helps. > > > Herbert Kanner > kanner at acm.org > 650-326-8204 > > Question authority and the authorities will question you. > > > > >> On Jul 20, 2015, at 7:20 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> >> wrote: >> >> I appreciate there is nothing wrong with my nearly acquired M9 but I need >> a little help. >> >> With the 35mm lens fitted (the only one I have) the frame lines are at >> the edge of my field of view. There is space around them so the camera is >> fine, it is my eyes. Has anyone any suggestions how I see more of the >> viewfinder? >> >> Thank you everyone, >> >> Gerry >> >> Gerry Walden LRPS >> www.gwpics.com <http://www.gwpics.com/> >> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information