Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Use the camera and system which you like most. The RF/ SLR discussion is as old as SLRs exist, with the generally accepted result, that a RF is more nice/ easy with wideangle lenses or low light condition, and SLR's focusing with longer lenses or macro pix. If you like your SLR, you can manage almost all problems without difficulties, and if you like an M mount, it's true also. And there is no need to mention, that any object which is more close than the distance on your meter/ feet scale (= overestimation) shows as double on the left side within the Leica rangefinder area, and each object which is more far (=underestimation) at the right side. Leitz does it that way since more than 60 years, no matter which screw or M mount Leica model. Unfortunately, the logic of the diodes of the M6 lightmeter is the opposite way round. Here, the overestimation is signaled on the right side, and the opposite logic makes you turn the focus ring into the wrong direction rather often. Besides, you can get completely confused, if you use Nikons and Leicas at teh same time, since both distance scales turn opposite also. Alf - ------------------ At 08:38 01.10.1997 -0500, you wrote: >At 12:19 AM 10/1/97 -0400, you wrote: >>first. If you have an isolated subject, I can't see any way that you >>would automatically know which way to turn the lens. >> >>On a rangefinder camera, however, the offset of the rangefinder patch >>always tells you if you are too close or too far away. > >Experience. That's how. And if you don't have some physical reason, >focusing with an SLR is going to be faster, in most cases, as long as your >focus isn't way off to start with. How long does it take to reverse >direction? I've used R and M cameras, and find the R system to be much >quicker to respond with. The M, though, it more accurate with wide angle >lenses. Tradeoffs. >Eric Welch