Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Your comment about 'tunnel vision' hits the value of the rangefinder smack on the head, Jeff. I do find the SLR viewfinder 'isolating,' for want of a better word, and know that when using it, I tend to concentrate so much on the central element of my image that I pay much less attention to framing than I do when using a rangefinder. On 10/10/05 12:05 PM, "Jeff Moore" <jbm@jbm.org> wrote: > 2005-10-09-19:03:56 B. D. Colen: >> Well said, John. For those who are buying the DMR not because it is made >> by >> Leica, but because it is the best digital tool they can find for the way >> they shoot, you've hit the proverbial nail squarely on the head. > > Indeed. It's more than a little horrific how much the DMR costs, but... > there's something I really love about the way pictures taken through my > Leica glass look, and for whatever reason I haven't had much luck > getting wide-open manual focus not to be a little bit off when I've > strapped R lenses on an EOS digital body. It's probably my fault for > not sending both the 10D and 20D to be recalibrated or something, but > there you are. Add in that one of the reasons I don't really take to > SLRs as much as I do to rangefinders is the SLR "tunnel vision" > phenomenon -- you can't see any context around the image frame while > working -- and the way the DMR uses an R8/R9 focusing screen with a > frameline rather than a black mask is really compelling to me. Can't > wait for mine to come back from Allendale where its companion R8 is > being taught to embrace the new, rather than being such an old fogey. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information