Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OK, I'll give it a try, though it certainly makes mush of some of my presuppositions. As I try to make sense of the difference between what you say and what I thought was possible, may I assume you are talking about fairly close-range eyeball focusing, or are you really saying you can achieve this from 12 feet or so with a 50mm SLR (R8) lens indoors, using wide apertures? No matter what the answer, I shall try it at various distances with my R before taking the coward's way out and falling back on an M. If my ideas were wrong, it won't be the first time. I never was a graceful child..............Julian Regards......Julian - ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Moore <jbm@oven.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 6:30 PM Subject: [Leica] Focusing difficulties [was Lens choice--sole lens for M6] 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... :-) )