Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: "John Collier" <jbcollier@powersurfr.com> | It is difficult to use an external mask with a parallax compensating | viewfinder. With a 35mm lens you could use a the SBOOI 50mm viewfinder. You | would have to loosen the set screw and orient the framelines | vertically(parallax marking useless of course). I do not know if you can do | that to any other viewfinders. It would be easy to make up a L shaped | accessory shoe to turn the finders 90 degrees (again no parallax | compensation. There was an official half frame M camera, the MD-22 (no | viewfinder) and I have jpegs of a M4-P half frame but who did the conversion | I do not know. That is a very interesting point. You would retain parallax compensation on the vertical field but lose it on the horizontal field. I don't know how many people posting who appear to want a single frame format have actually used that format. My experience is that you must shoot in a manner that wastes nothing of the image (i.e. you don't want to have to crop). I was forced to use a single frame camera semi-professionally for about a year. It was not a problem since the final prints were expected to be 8x10. You could go to 11x14 if and still get an acceptable print. Slide shows were significantly of less quality than 24x36 format which is of course significantly less quality than a 6 x 6 cm format. Personally, I don't see what would be gained by using a single frame format. The camera would be the same size because of the rangefinder system. In practical terms, I usually ripped the roll out after about 36 exposures because I needed the "product." I admit to still occasionally carrying a single frame camera...It is smaller than a Leica...I think that the folks that want single frame ought to try an Olympus Pen F...you have X flash synch to the maximum shutter speed...you can get really slow hand held exposures because they use a completely different view system than "normal" SLRs...you can get an adapter for Leica screwmount lenses...theoretically, because of the lens registration, you could make an adapter for the M lenses and the R lenses. But you are still going to have shoot tight to get acceptable results.... Regards, Bill Larsen Terra Bella, California - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html