User Guide

Automatic

Finder

Adjustment

for 90mm

and 135mm

Lenses

90 mm Lenses

Fit a 90mm LEICA lens in your LEICA M3, lock it

in position, and again look through the range-

viewfinder. You will now see on additional bright

line finder frame which indicates the field of view

covered by the 90mm lens within the field of the

standard 50mm lens, and reproduced on the film

with 1.8 times magnification. An important point

is that the surrounding subject area remains

visible in the finder, so that you can easily follow

moving subjects and bring them within the 90mm

finder field. In the same way the finder

automatically indicates the view of the 135mm

lens when you fit the 135mm ELMAR in the

camera. In addition, the parallax error is

Field of view with a 90 mm LEICA lens. The

subject area covered with the longer focal

length is indicated by the additional bright

line frame within the large brilliant frame

showing the field of view of the 50 mm lens,

which remains visible all the time.

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