Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica] anyone using 24mm
From: "Jay Coleman" <jcoleman.interport@rcn.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:26:14 -0700

Use an SLR.  The problem is endemic to rangefinders, auxilliary finder or
no.

Jay Coleman

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Barry Dinan
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 4:21 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] anyone using 24mm


To anyone using 24mm for your M6:

I'm wondering if you have ever experienced a problem with composition that
compares to one I have recently experienced?
I recently composed a shot in the cabin of a small fishing boat.  I framed
the shot using the clip on viewfinder.  The skipper was in the foreground
looking through the cabin window.  Through the window was another boat which
I centered up in the window which the skipper was looking through.
However, when the contacts were developed I found to my surprise that the
boat seen through the window in the background was not centered in the
window as I had composed it.  The boat was in fact mostly blocked out by the
skipper who was in the foreground.
i.e. I seem to have experienced a problem when composing with the 24mm on
the new M6 ttl.  What's in the clip on viewfinder is not always what's on
the neg!  I'm quite worried about this and I will be running some tests on
this.  It seems that the foreground can eclipse the background.......  I
should add that the camera was also held 'sideways' for this shot.

Barry Dinan
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