Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right, now that's something thatıs not covered. How much it matters I don't know yet. But it makes perfect sense since the brightline is offset from the lens your actually looking across where the lens is focused so to speak. I knew there had to be issues even if the brightlines moved... - -- John Chicago, IL http://SlideOne.com ==================== on 12/19/01 8:35 PM, John Collier at jbcollier@powersurfr.com wrote: > A very good question but not actually answered yet. Yes the viewfinder has a > mechanism which compensates for focused subject parallax but that is not the > whole of the issue. There is also the problem that, when you are focused > close, your subject/background relationship that you observe through the > viewfinder will be different from what will be on the film. When working in > close quarters I shift the camera up and to the left to put the lens where > my eye was. I am so used to this it is completely automatic now. > > John Collier > >> From: John Straus <Mail@SlideOne.com> >> Subject: [Leica] Parallex...? >> >> Being new to the Leica RFs how does the M6 deal with parallex? I've read the >> manual but was hoping for some real world help in answering the question. >> Also what lenses are affected the most and the least by this? Is there a >> basic distance when I should start to think about the effect it will have on >> my framing or is it really dependant on the lens I'm using? I am used to >> croping things tight in the frame on an SLR and want to know if I need to >> shoot a little more "forgiving" with the RF... >> > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html