Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am being troubled by the R8 viewfinder. The manual says that it covers 93% of the image (96% vertically and 97% horizontally). Leica claims that this corresponds to the usable or "viewable" image you get with framed slides. However, I have quite often experienced that feet are "cut off" on my pictures (slides or photos) although I am quite positive that they were completely visible in the finder at the time the picture was taken. This happened a lot of times. Right now, I have to foresee this by adding more space at the bottom of the image. By the way, this only seems to be happening at the bottom of the image (but it would in any case be less noticeable at the upper side). I checked with the development center about this: they claim it is the camera and not them. Indeed, I carefully checked negatives, and this seems to prove they're right. Of course, there is some loss when printing, but this does not fully explain the extent of the loss I am experiencing. Anyone having made the same observation? Pascal - -------------------------------------------------------- Sent on a Macintosh PowerBook G3, the fastest laptop on the planet - -------------------------------------------------------- <<< PGP public key available on request >>>