add eye relief to M2

[los]

recently acquired an M2. i like it a lot. i use a 35mm lens almost exclusively, and am wanting a little bit more room around the 35mm frame lines. i do not wear glasses, and shoot with my left eye. any suggestions?

 

[los]

contacted Don. DAG says no. now you know.

 

[payasam]

I should soon get Shac's 1.25X eye-piece magnifier for my M2. Maybe you need a "magnifier" that works the other way.

 

[los]

that is what i was thinking, like a diopter or negative magnification accessory. i guess no one has ever heard of such a thing for the m2.

 

[Rob-F]

Recently I have seen 0.85 magnifiers on eBay. Apparently they make the whole field more visible to eyeglass wearers.

 

[Freakscene]

Recently I have seen 0.85 magnifiers on eBay. Apparently they make the whole field more visible to eyeglass wearers.

The "minifiers" just make you see the same thing smaller. It's optically impossible to show you more around the framelines or to really change the eye relief using anything behind the viewfinder, since both are inherent properties of the viewfinder.

Marty

 

[Pickett Wilson]

I do wear glasses, and can see the entire 35mm frameline on the M2 if my eye is perfectly centered. Usually, though, I don't worry about the frameline and just use the entire finder visible to me to frame with. It works for me. If I want precise framing I'll use an SLR.

 

[los]

rob-f,

that sounds like something that might work for me. do you have a link?

 

[Doug]

I've had my M2 and 35mm lens for many years, and even when wearing contacts I could only see the entire 35mm frame when carefully centered and then only peripherally. It was ok, just how it was. I understand others see that 35 frame more easily than I; just too many such experiences shared.

But when I finally got a 50mm lens it was a revelation to see some 'air' around the frameline, and I liked that. They say an M2 and 35mm lens is a natural combination, and much as I like 35mm, a 50 seems more suited to the M2.

 

[furcafe]

Well, you can't have the VF magnification changed, but you can have the pesky eyepiece frame (the M2 has a rectangular frame that wasn't on the M3 & isn't on the modern Ms) removed to create a larger opening & that gives you slightly more relief.

contacted Don. DAG says no. now you know.

 

[Doug]

Well, you can't have the VF magnification changed, but you can have the pesky eyepiece frame (the M2 has a rectangular frame that wasn't on the M3 & isn't on the modern Ms) removed to create a larger opening & that gives you slightly more relief.

Now THAT sounds like a good idea, unless there's a downside to removing it. And it offers an explanation, at least in part, of the M6 squeezing a 28mm frameline into the same .72x VF magnification.

 

[rlouzan]

A Leitz M3 35mm Summicron or Summaron w/eyes😉.

 

[Doug]

There's another fine idea I hadn't seriously considered... a very attractive idea, thanks!

 

[Rob-F]

rob-f,

that sounds like something that might work for me. do you have a link?

Well, before getting too excited, note the comment that was made above, doubting that the demagnifier will actually make the 35mm framelines more visible.

But let me see what I can find for a link.