Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 35 w goggles on M6 (wasM6TTL desirable?)
From: InfinityDT@aol.com
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:38:08 EDT
 
In a message dated 10/2/98 4:09:58 AM EST, boreham@dial.pipex.com writes:

> Jay,
>  Ed is right on this. The 35mm goggle lens pulls up the 50mm framelines in
>  an M3, M6 or M6HM, and then corrects the field of view to be correct for
>  35mm. On a regular M6 it gives a high eyepoint and on an M6HM it will be
>  similar to an M3
                        
                        I stand corrected.  I did not realize that the goggle
pulled up the 50 frameline on post-M3 M's; I thought mistakenly it pulled up
the 35.  (I skipped directly from the IIIf to the M2 and I've only handled
M3's in stores/shows etc.)