Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/17

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Subject: [Leica] Focusing difficulties [was Lens choice--sole lens for M6]
From: Jeff Moore <jbm@oven.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:30:12 -0500

1999-12-15-23:14:33 Julian Koplen:
> I find I can focus on something with shine or
> glimmer to it, but a child's face is more difficult to hit spot on.  I often
> vary by a foot or two when I try to repeat focus on the same face from about
> 12 feet.

So... let me be really annoying and suggest that you give up focusing
on faces and try something more Ted-like: focus on an eyeball within
the face!  There's that nice sharp pupil-to-white transition you can
concentrate on...

If it seems impossible... practice some more.

(And now I'll start the timer on a moratorium on showing the LUG more
of my pictures until you've forgotten this note, lest you remember
to look extra-hard at my photographic eyeballs...  :-) )