Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Kari wrote: >The technique of just slightly hunching the upper body to the right >seems to do it: the finder is where the lens was/will be. A good trick, and worth remembering. What I was getting at in my post of 11/26 was more related to alignment where you aren't focussed, in BG. Try this: Tripod mount your M. Focus at infinity and note where the frameline is, esp. the top edge. Now focus 5-6 feet away as you might to focus a foreground flower. Notice the frame has shifted down and right. This corrects the framing for the focussed plane, but is way off for distant background. This is not a big deal for street shooting, but the M is also a nice lightweight compact for landscapes/cityscapes etc where foreground/BG alignment is critical. Moving the lens to where the finder was is only accurate when the finder is at infinity. Probably a brightline set to infinity would work, esp. on a tripod as the shoe is vertical over the lens. A little column rise would give true parallax correction. Nick Hunter