Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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