Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John Lowther wrote: >Someone mentioned using his 21mm/3.4 Super Angulon for photographing >the interior of architectural models. > >I have had fairly serious trouble with parallax using the 21mm viewfinder >on close-ups: I get a lot more foreground than I expect from the viewfinder... >especially on low angle shots... 'Twas I. It wasn't until most of my neural paths were frozen solid that I picked up a 'real' SLR (sorry Marc, but in spite of many years of using Visoflex's and even occasionally a PLOOT, it's not the same) so I learned early on to deal with parallax and pointing a camera without looking through the viewfinder. The thing about shooting architectural models with a Leica and SA or Hologon is that the lens axis is closer to ground level (looks a lot more 'real'), and using a Nikon F4 with 15/3.5 tends to produce results like Godzilla on the 1:200 landscape. Small is good. BTW, modelscopes are, in general, terrible due to their tiny optics. I've shot through 'scopes that cost $30,000 and the results were still mud in comparison to SA or Hologon pictures. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com