[Leica] CV 15mm lens on M8

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (TED GRANT)]

I don't think anyone has hit on this yet with the wide glass. No matter what 
lens you have on IE: 12-15-21 and no external viewfiner you know you're 
covering a wide area so your butt is pretty well covered if you look through 
the camera viewfinder, focus on the centre of the scene you wish to 
photograph and keep it there and shoot. You know without question you've 
99.9% of the time it's covered.
In other words, you look with your eyes and see the centre of the scene and 
some idea of what you'e going to cover with the 15, look through viewfinder 
at exact same centre location, focus and click! That easy! And I've done 
that in a rush thousands of times and it's always as close as you need.
remember KISS! :-)
ted


----- Original Message -----
From: FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@btinternet.com>
Date: Friday, March 28, 2008 9:05 am
Subject: Re: [Leica] CV 15mm lens on M8
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>

> I don't completely agree. One of the reasons I accept the 
> parallax problems of an M, which for me are more serious than 
> framing errors, is the focussing accuracy and quality of the 
> lenses at wide apertures. I -never- zone focus my M personally.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Pablo Kolodny <pkolodny@fibertel.com.ar>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, 28 March, 2008 2:17:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] CV 15mm lens on M8
> 
> Hi Frank, 
> 
> I agree, that's why I was saying that for what RF cameras are 
> mostly made
> for is sort of point and shoot mode. Just preset focus, maybe F-
> stop too
> (Aperture priority will do the rest of the job if we speak of 
> automaticcameras, I think M8s do this)  mode and you're 
> done. And for this specific
> purpose I find separate finders to work better than in-camera finders.
> And again, I just didn't get what/why Tina said she hates 
> separate finders.
> And others agreed in that.
> 
> regards
> 
> Pablo
> 
> 
> frank.dernie@btinternet.com wrote:
> 
> > The importance of frameline accuracy is a personal thing. OTOH 
> the reason why
> > SLR manufacturers go on ad nauseam about their viewfinder 
> coverage is that is
> > difficult and expensive to produce a 100% SLR viewfinder so 
> most did not.
> > Those that did therefore made a big thing of it.
> > There is no doubt that if framing accuracy is a very important 
> thing you look
> > for in a camera an SLR is necessary. A Leica type viewfinder 
> has to have
> > framing error varying with focusing distance and, particularly 
> with the more
> > extreme wide angle lenses, some interesting/annoying parallax 
> effects.> Frank
> 
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