Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, Marc, my comment stands...If you have a photo framed exactly the way you want it, but can't focus because of flare and have to move the camera one way or another, you will NOT be taking precisely the same photo. I will certainly grant you that 99 times out of 100 it won't matter...but that 100th time it will make all the difference. My point on this flare question has been that it really sucks that this problem exists in a $2000 camera body. That doesn't mean that the M isn't a terrific camera anyway. It means that it does have a quite annoying defect, and it's pretty inexcusable of Leica not to have done something about it by now. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Robert Appleby and Susan Darlow Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 7:44 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Careful framing Theywrote: >>Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 19:13:23 -0500 From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> Subject: RE: [Leica] M6 Viewfinder rangefinder patch flare CONTROL ?? At 05:53 PM 2/11/2000 -0000, B. D. Colen wrote: >Gee - if moving six inches one way or another because of rangefinder flare - >which is to say moving within a range of a foot - doesn't cause any >problems, why do we bother to frame carefully? Gee, BD, this qualifies as a stupid statement. Move six inches and then frame carefully. Are you so one-dimensional as to be incapable of a little flexibility? Marc >> I would have said, if you want critical framing, why are you using a rangefinder? Rob. Robert Appleby and Sue Darlow Via Bellentani 36 41100 Modena Italy Tel/fax [39] 059 303436