Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Rangefinder + Super-wide lens
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:50:28 +0000

At 04:50 PM 3/17/99 +0000, I wrote:
>There is a trick with rangefinders which is useful when you have subjects
>near the lens which you want to put in a certain place against the
>background, and that is to carefully sight the picture through the
>viewfinder and then physically move the camera so that the lens is moved
>into the position the viewfinder was in. So that is a diagonal movement. It
>isn't as sure as using an SLR but you can compensate quite well this way.
>Joe Berenbaum

I just re-read that and it is a bit confusing. The movement used to
compensate for parallax is only diagonal if you are using the cameras
viewfinder- an accessory viewfinder sits above the lens, more or less.

Joe Berenbaum