Saw this and though some of the M6 folks might want to check it out. Leica finder shade

-- Andrew Schank (aschank@flash.net), March 12, 2001

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Saw this a few months ago. I thought about trying it, but have found that a very small piece of tape placed over the center of the illuminator window kills the flare in the rangefinder patch and doesn't change the frameline intensity at all.

Godfrey

-- Godfrey DiGiorgi (ramarren@bayarea.net), March 13, 2001.

what kind of tape. i tried duct and it didnt work too well...

-- grant (g4lamos@yahoo.com), March 18, 2001.

Grant,

The tape to be used would be clear scotch tape, the "invisible" type. Its glare free surface defuses the light, which in theory reduces flare, while maintaining the finder frames. As you have discovered, an opaque tape, such as duct, would make the frame lines invisible.

This is a good trick for some applications though. If you had a M3, you can duct tape the illumination window, which would give you a quasi 35mm frame formed by the actual metal finder. I have also heard, but not confirmed that this also works with the 24mm lens on an M6 with .72 mag finder. Of course, you would loose the floating frame lines, so there would be no parallax correction in the close-up range.

-- Al Smith (smith58@msn.com), March 19, 2001.

well for me the full view of the .72 finder is just about exactly the 35mm frame! I can't imagine using the standard M6 window as a 24 finder. I do wear thick glasses, though.

-- rob appleby (rob@robertappleby.com), March 19, 2001.