Which viewfinder?

[Robert Ridyard]

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I wear glasses and find it increasingly difficult to use a 35 mm lens on my M4-2. I can't see the whole frame, so it is difficult to compose pictures accurately. Would a 0.58 viewfinder solve this problem?

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[bill]

I wear glasses and find it increasingly difficult to use a 35 mm lens on my M4-2. I can't see the whole frame, so it is difficult to compose pictures accurately. Would a 0.58 viewfinder solve this problem?

 

Hello Robert,

 

This is one of those intensely personal questions that is very hard to answer. For instance I too wear spectacles much of the time and am happy with my M7 .85.

 

BEFORE you change cameras may I suggest that you consider changing spectacles - the size and shape of the frame can have quite an impact - or even looking at contacts? If you are otherwise happy with your Leica this would seem to be a lower cost option than the sort of switch you are considering.

 

 

Regards,

 

Bill

[Guest rontr6]

Hi Robert

You can buy a little lens cheaply on Ebay from China that converts a M6 0.72 viewfinder to 0.58, I found it quite handy with a 28mm lens on the M6, don't know whether it fits the viewfinder of the M4 though??

Ron

[lars_bergquist]

What is your eye problem? I am badly presbyopic (my 72 year old eyeballs are fix-focused beyond the horizon) so I use quite strong progressive specs with synthetic lenses—and I have an M4-P and I have no problems with the 35mm frame, only with the 28!

 

I did experiment with correction lenses in the eyepiece, but rejected them. A secondhand Leica 28mm finder cured the 28mm problem. Finding the right relative position of the eyepiece and specs, to show frames and rangefinder patch sharply, comes instinctually.

 

The old man from the Age of Bifocals