Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Fast lens.
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:20:21 -0800 (PST)

I know Rei, old habits die hard. 

- --- Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com> wrote:
> rotate your camera clockwise so your right arm isn't
> flapping in
> the wind (as i recall some lugger describing it).
> now it's the
> lower left quadrant being occluded.
> 
> BTW, the late-model 35 lux hoods do have a cutout in
> the 
> appropriate corner.
> 
> -rei
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:35:52AM -0800, Henry Ting
> wrote:
> > Thankyou all. I'm gonna get one. However, if the
> > rectangular hood is anything like my 35mm cron
> > (without the cutout), then the first thing I'll do
> is
> > replace it. I hate the square hood without the
> cutout.
> > Shooting the landscape format is ok, but for
> portrait
> > format, the square hood just blocks out the right
> top
> > corner too much to my liking. Maybe its a mental
> > thing, but a blocking a chunk of the top
> right-hand
> > corner while framing, to me is a visual eye-sore.
> 
> -- 
> Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
> Ridgewood, New Jersey
> 
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