Hiya

Could someone who has the viewfinder mag for the M6 and a digital camera take a couple of shots so that I can see how it sits when flipped and in place. An end on view would be great.

Thanks in advance

Dave C

-- D J Chilvers (davechilvers@btinternet.com), May 21, 2002

Answers

http://www.leica-camera.com/imperia/md/content/pdf/msystem/30.pdf

-- Andrew (mazurka@rocketmail.com), May 21, 2002.

Andrew, you're amazing!

-- Patrick (pg@patrickgarner.com), May 21, 2002.

am I the only person that feels like this should be a $50 accessoire? Any copy cats yet?

-- pat (modlabs@yahoo.com), May 21, 2002.

Come on Voigtlander - lets have one that gives you 1:1 with the .72 finder!

-- Johann Fuller (johannfuller@hotmail.com), May 21, 2002.

Patrick: why, thank you! :)

Johann: if Mr Kobayashi is as shrewd as I believe him to be, there will be such a magnifier, UNLESS he considers the niche already served by the Bessa T.

BTW, I really wonder how the T is selling. The grey 101 Aniv model is great to look at, but a real pain to use. IMHO, a worthy counterpart to the M5 of some 30 years ago.

-- Andrew (mazurka@rocketmail.com), May 21, 2002.

....and just about the only thing that prevents me from replacing my flaring, slow-sync M6TTL with the Bessa R2 is the latter's finder. A Voigtsina finder magnifier would do the trick in a snap (no pun.)

-- Andrew (mazurka@rocketmail.com), May 21, 2002.

The viewfinder magnifier *does not flip* although I said from the get- go that it should have, just like every SLR magnifier on the market. The stupidly-designed $230 accessory screws on and off and dangles from a chain attached to a leather case that threads on the neckstrap. Dumb, idiotic, insane...i.e., typically Leica. Since I shoot with 2 bodies, as soon as I bought my 1.25x, off came the chain and case, and the magnifier lives on one of my 0.72 M6's. I would only remove it if I needed to use that body as a backup for lenses shorter than 90mm. I can't see the 50mm frames with the magnifier in place. BTW, for years I was handholding a 2x Minolta SLR magnifier up to the M6 eyepiece when critical focusing on a tripod.

-- Jay (infinitydt@aol.com), May 21, 2002.

Thanks for all comments.

I`ve tried to get hold of a magnifier in the UK but to no avail, anybody know where they might be in stock?

Thanks

-- D J Chilvers (davechilvers@btinternet.com), May 21, 2002.

Jay, you paint with words! How could anyone resist buying this little gem after such an endorsement? ;-)

Seriously, I did order one late last year from my local (Indonesian) dealer, who orders his Leica stuff from Hong Kong, but he can't get one for love or money. The price for this accessory is high but it's a once-in-a-lifetime purchase, I suppose. However, if a Voightlander alternative became available, I'd buy one for sure.

-- Ray Moth (ray_moth@yahoo.com), May 21, 2002.

I would substitute "quirky" for "dumb, idiotic, insane". :-) If Leica products weren't quirky in some way, we wouldn't appreciate them as much. It's a characteristic of German design and engineering. I have been looking for a 1.25X magnifier too, and my dealers don't have any now. They seem to have underestimated the demand for this item. Sure it's ovepriced, but isn't everything else Leica makes overpriced? Anyway, the idea of such a magnifier is a good one, even if they didn't get every detail perfect.

-- Eliot (erosen@lij.edu), May 22, 2002.

get a 2x magnifer from a Nikon and epoxy if to a broken Leica M eyepiece diopter lens

-- Kelly Flanigan (zorki3c@netscape.net), May 22, 2002.