On Sun, 01 Nov 1998 12:34:12 +0000, Robert Wright wrote:

>I have just stumbled on this answer and am thinking of the reverse.
>I use a Nikon manual, with 20mm, 28mm, 50mm, 85mm, and 200mm
>My wife finds it impossible to focus (don't ask me why) and I was thinking of buying
>her a pre owned Leica rangefinder, perhaps with a 35mm lens as that would be all I
>caould afford.
>Any suggestions / ideas / advice?

Perhaps an eye-piece correction lens or eye-glasses change that would
allow her to sharply focus her camera eye at approximately 3-3.5'
would help (and be a simpler solution...! ;-) BTW, I describe a
glasses solution on my web page (under "I babble") that helped me
both with camera focus - and with seeing. Also, BTW, I hate those
(useless to me) viewing screen "focus-aids", and find plain-centered
screens much preferable for easy/quick manual-focusing (and Nikon
MF bodies have about the sharpest viewfinders around, so that
should not be the source of the problem...). For me, a rangefinder
is unpleasant to use - the finder is darker, off-color, "fiddly"
for focus, unacceptably poor in its framing accuracy, and it gives
no sense of DOF or of lens problems like flare and ghosts - which
is to say, rangefinders fail in every way (giving insufficient
information to me about color, contrast, DOF, framing, focus, or
lens problems) in helping to predict what my final image will be like.