Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/24

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Subject: [Leica] Re: The finder view of an SLR
From: Erich Champion <nepenthe@ibm.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:04:21 -0800
 
> Shooting chromes for reproduction (other than newspapers), 99% of the
> time the printer removes the transparency from its mount.  In the other
> 1%, with experience one learns to judge how much of the 100% field will
> be obscured by a standard slide mount.  ( I know of at least one
> photographer who uses focussing screens into which he scribed lines
> delineating the slide mount crop...the effect is rather like the
> framelines in a Leica M.)  No amount of experience enables one to see
> what's just outside the finder view of an SLR.

Sure it does. Just keep both eyes open while composing, then close one
get the focus right. With my right eye staring through the viefinder and
my left eye peeking around the prism housing, I get a nice
picture-in-picture view of the world.

Erich