Held an M6 today

[choozart]

After reading so much about Leicas, I finally had the opportunity to hold one in my hands today, an M6, very nice.

I was saddened by my Canonet experience, in that my eyesight (I wear glasses) and the rangefinder experience didn't agree very well. I had troubling lining up the two images, and the photos proved it, they were mostly out of focus. I didn't like the blurry patch I was seeing in the Canonet.

My hope was that the Leica's was much better in this regard, and largely, it was, but, again, I did not feel confident in my ability to line up the two images, and so I guess for 35mm, it's Hexar AF country for me (that plus my Fuji GA645 Zi, which I love to death).

Patrick

 

[Magnus]

How about the Contax G2 series ... ?

 

[merciful]

That's too bad. I wear glasses, and I've found my whole RF experience, from Canonet through M, to be most satisfactory.

 

[aizan]

what kind of eyesight do you have? i just have myopia.

 

[merciful]

what kind of eyesight do you have? i just have myopia.

Same here: -2.5, -3.5.

I can't imagine using an AF camera for the stuff I do: I couldn't trust AF at very wide apertures.

 

[Socke]

Same here: -2.5, -3.5.

I can't imagine using an AF camera for the stuff I do: I couldn't trust AF at very wide apertures.

Ok, you won't get that wide apertures on a G2 anyways. But I can asure you, that the G2 AF and MF is exact to 1 cm with a Biogon 28/2.8, Planar 45/2 and Sonnar 90/2.8.
If I need less DoF I dust up the Master Technika 🙂

 

[former member]

I am way past Merciful for nearsightedness, -5.5 or so. I do not have any trouble with my RF's. My vision is very correctable, and the latest pair of glasses helps. I have the RF's calibrated and on the Kodak Retina IIIS, the RF spot adjusted for focus. Using the Canonet and M2 is faster for me than a manual focus SLR. I usually find an edge, focus, compose, and shoot. But, I have used RF's since I was 11, which was 1969.

 

[Nikon Bob]

Patrick

If I am not mistaken, there are screw in diopters for the M Leicas. When I tried the M4 out, that I eventually bought, the rangefinder patch was very blurry and hard to focus until the corrective diopter was removed.

Bob