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Strange thing happening, I haven't noticed before,

the frame-lines inside the CL viewfinder move while focusing the lens.

I used to think only the two images inside the little rectangle in the middle move, actually one not both, but now I don't know...

EIther it is all right, or I must have dropped the bag in which it is kept, although it is surrounded by soft material incase it drops.

The vertical wide line across which the meter needle moves in the viewfinder becomes narrower and wider depending upon focusing close or infinity.

Is this normal or am I missing something?

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Yes,

I've had a Leica IIIa,

not entirely new to RF,

it is just that so far I thought just the double image moved,

not the whole 40 and 50 lines/rectangles them selves,

kind of like the mountain moving towards Mohamed,

rather than Mohamed to the mountain(small towards big).

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Yes,

I've had a Leica IIIa,

not entirely new to RF,

it is just that so far I thought just the double image moved,

not the whole 40 and 50 lines/rectangles them selves,

kind of like the mountain moving towards Mohamed,

rather than Mohamed to the mountain(small towards big).

 

... and infact parallax correction was one of the significative improvement of the new VF/RF system of the M line, and it was kept on the CL... but I don't understand well why you quote also the meter's needle reference line... :confused: ; while focusing, only the white framelines (40/50 and 90) do move.

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of course the 40-50-90 white lines move,

but they all seem to belong to the same rectangle,

one that moves away and towards the vertical meter reference line,

when moving towards thinning the vertical,

moving away means fattening the vertical.

Am I making sense?

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of course the 40-50-90 white lines move,

but they all seem to belong to the same rectangle,

one that moves away and towards the vertical meter reference line,

when moving towards thinning the vertical,

moving away means fattening the vertical.

Am I making sense?

 

Yes, they come from the same mount so they move together.

 

And yes, you make sense; the white line becomes thicker - but one has to own a CL to understand what you are talking about.

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of course the 40-50-90 white lines move,

but they all seem to belong to the same rectangle,

one that moves away and towards the vertical meter reference line,

when moving towards thinning the vertical,

moving away means fattening the vertical.

Am I making sense?

 

OK... :cool:

"moving away"= focusing to infinity

"moving towards" = focusing to near distance

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