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Subject: Re: [Leica] Microprisms for R8?
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:02:14 +1100
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>Julian wrote:
>>>>  Thanks, Ted.  I tend to listen to what you say, which is why I have the
>>  ground glass on my R8.  I actually do well with it but have never been
>brave
>>  enough to try it with a 35mm and with indoor available light (say, f2 and
>>  1/30).  I always chicken out and use my one and only M6 for that.<<
>
>Julian,
>Well sometimes you just have to go M if it's dark and you can't get a good
>fix on a highlight for sharp focus o the ground glass screen, but it has to
>be pretty damn dark before you can't use the R8 under low light conditions..

could I ask here about focusing a long lens at the Grand Prix, 
through a wire fence. I "failed" at that only a few days ago. I tried 
to focus the 70-180 on the white stripe on the track's surface, but 
it was a bit hard with the interfering wire. I ended up using the 
shimmering microprism, but the results were sadly "off", and since I 
was at f2.8, the results are "unforgiving". Not that images of 
colourful cars through wire fences is anything I'd want to brag 
about, but I did have to have a record of my "day"

Cheers
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Alastair Firkin

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