Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/22

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Subject: Re: Paralax correction
From: c.blaue@bmsg.de
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:52:46 +0100

Charles E. Love, Jr. wrote:
>   If you doubt this, note that the M6 is parallax corrected in one way (that
>   is, the frameline moves down and to the right as you focus closer) but
>   commits another serious error, because the size of the frameline ought to
>   get smaller as you focus closer as well, and it doesn't.  To see this, get
>   yourself to a high-end camera store and take a look at the Fuji 645A, a new
>   autofocus medium format camera which incorporates the size correction in the
>   viewfinder.  You'll be stunned, as I was, to see how large the change in
>   frameline size is as you focus closer and further away.

You can see the same with a slide projector, when you focus at a short
distance, the size of the displayed picture changes a lot.

christoph