Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica-Users List Digest V2 #269
From: Thomas Kachadurian <kach@freeway.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:34:21 -0500

Eric:

>The 100 per cent vs. 92 per cent viewfinder issue has always been around.
>The difficulty of producing a 100 per cent viewfinder, and the lack of any
>real reason to have one is the main reason. 35mm photography is dynamic,
>and fast moving. Wasting time worrying about a tiny bit on the edges is not
>that big a deal. 

Perhaps not a big deal in the newspaper world where there are knowledgable
photo editors doing the cropping. There problem is, if you don't see it in
the viewfinder, and it gets in the frame, then it's one the trans. 

When you give a trans to a client you can't be there to crop it, so you
must assure that they can't leave something in that you want out. I never
understood the real need for a 100% veiwfinder until I started shooting for
40 differnt clients with all levels of sophistication.

Tom