Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/17
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Brougham jotted down the following:
> This reminds me... I had a hard time focusing my M6 this past week.
> My subject was a dozen or so vertical pipes that were part of a
> sculpture. I had a really hard time telling which pipe was being
> superimposed on which pipe in the rangefinder.
Repeating patterns are very tricky with the rangefinder. When I encounter
such situations, I do one of three things:
* Try and find the edge of the pattern, or some part of it, which
is unique and focus on that. Then perhaps adjust a little if I
can figure out the difference between the distance to that and
the distance to the part I'm primarily interested in. Basically,
what you did.
* Use sufficient DOF to capture the area and scale focussing.
* Pull out an SLR.
The M is good, but not for everything.
M.
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