RE: [Leica] Focusing difficulties [was Lens choice--sole lens for M6]

["Lee, Ken" <ken.lee@hbc.com>]

I am assuming that the "focus on the eyes / eyelashes" people have super
human vision or are talking about closeups. At a distance of 6 feet or more
indoors with my M6 or an slr with a 50mm lens on it, I can't see the eyes. I
tend to focus on the eyebrows if it is bright enough to see them, otherwise
the ears win.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Julian Koplen [SMTP:jkoplen@mindspring.com]
> Sent:	Friday, December 17, 1999 10:05 PM
> To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject:	Re: [Leica] Focusing difficulties [was Lens choice--sole
> lens for M6]
> 
> 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...  :-) )
> 
>