Re: [Leica] anyone using 24mm

[Christer Almqvist <christer@almqvist.net>]

This reply relates to 21 mm, but I guess it applies to 24 mm too, more or less.

I recently photographed a glass with very fizzy mineral water on a beach
café table with the beach in the background and the setting sun
backlighting the sparkels in the glass. The glass was about a yard away
from my M6. I noticed that the backlight effect on the water bubbles
disappeared when I moved the camera up and down ever so little. My first
shots were with the effect shown clearly in the viewfinder, but for the
rest I moved the camera just that much I thought would be necessary to
place the lens in the position of the viewfinder when I saw the backlight
effect. Some of the negatives turned out really flat, others looked
tri-dimensional with the airbubbles swimming in the water. Guess which were
which?

I had taken similar photos some years ago when I used a SLR. SLR is easy
for that. If you have one, check the effect of moving the camera just an
inch up or down. (OK your problems is a horizontal move, rather than a
vertical, and there the M6 finder vs lens difference is smaller, but
existing)

Chris


>To anyone using 24mm for your M6:
>
>I'm wondering if you have ever experienced a problem with composition that
>compares to one I have recently experienced?
>I recently composed a shot in the cabin of a small fishing boat.  I framed
>the shot using the clip on viewfinder.  The skipper was in the foreground
>looking through the cabin window.  Through the window was another boat which
>I centered up in the window which the skipper was looking through.
>However, when the contacts were developed I found to my surprise that the
>boat seen through the window in the background was not centered in the
>window as I had composed it.  The boat was in fact mostly blocked out by the
>skipper who was in the foreground.
>i.e. I seem to have experienced a problem when composing with the 24mm on
>the new M6 ttl.  What's in the clip on viewfinder is not always what's on
>the neg!  I'm quite worried about this and I will be running some tests on
>this.  It seems that the foreground can eclipse the background.......  I
>should add that the camera was also held 'sideways' for this shot.
>
>Barry Dinan
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