Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 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 > > I've gone ultra wide now and have learned to love it my main lens being a 12-24mm translating to 18-35mm. I'm often shooting very fast at the widest and then cropping like crazy when I'm Photoshopping. That with RAW and It's like the picture is being taken at night in the O dark AM when I am hunched over my laptop crunching my pix from the day before. The decisive moment I think more and more... Comes later when looking at ones "contact sheets". But It's like shooting squares which later have to be cropped into rectangles. Mark William Rabiner markrabiner.com