Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kari wrote: >The other is that with a RF/separate finder everything is in focus. = >In complex scenes there always tends to be distracting elements. = >Urban environment is so cluttered by strongly distracting things, = >light poles, wires, garbage of all sorts, random guys here and = >there. With a RF/finder you see it all in focus and can mask some = >behind the main subject, align them to be just pieces of composition etc= =2E = **Not so easy, because of the parallax with RF. >With a SLR all looks clean on the screen (say 50, 85 mm or = >longer) but in the final image unpleasant stuff pops up from = >nowhere. Of course if you have time to use dof you can control it = >but often things happen too fast or it's too dark. In a way with = >RF/finder you see the worst possible image and then the numinous = >"bokeh" comes to rescue by wiping out some of the distraction. **Often I finded my "M" pictures better than expected and my "R" flatter = =2E The later are improving sinds I use the R8, because of the top speed of 8000/S who permit to use the R lenses wide open more easily. N.B. I tend to use my M6 with 100 ISO and my R with 200 or 400 because of the 80-200/4 and the Polarizer. Lucien BELGIUM