Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>If you work with a SLR long enough you will learn to focus in the >proper direction. I have at least. Duane, I know which way to turn the helical on my SLR to focus closer or farther away. My point was that you don't always know which way you need to go. If your subject is slightly out of focus, how do you know if you are focused too close or too far? If the background or foreground is sharper, you can tell, but this means you need to study the viewfinder image first. If you have an isolated subject, I can't see any way that you would automatically know which way to turn the lens. On a rangefinder camera, however, the offset of the rangefinder patch always tells you if you are too close or too far away. - - Paul