Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Rangefinder + Super-wide lens
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:50:22 +0000

At 12:16 PM 3/17/99 +0000, you wrote:
>
>What's it like using a rangefinder with a really wide (21mm or wider)
>lens? Often wide angle photos have a lot of near-far perspective,
>sometimes where the near thing is right up close to the lens. Is the
>parallex error of the viewfinder particulary bothersome in this
>situation? Especially since it being an add-on viewfinder there would be
>no parallex correction at all. Is this the time to pull out the SLR, or
>is just another minor quibble of a rangefinder camera?
>
>
>-- 
>Chris Bitmead

There is a trick with rangefinders which is useful when you have subjects
near the lens which you want to put in a certain place against the
background, and that is to carefully sight the picture through the
viewfinder and then physically move the camera so that the lens is moved
into the position the viewfinder was in. So that is a diagonal movement. It
isn't as sure as using an SLR but you can compensate quite well this way.

Joe Berenbaum