Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dans un courrier daté du 16/08/00 15:03:38 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été), telyt560@cswebmail.com a écrit : << On Wed, 16 August 2000, "Barry Dinan" wrote: > > To anyone using 24mm for your M6: > > I'm wondering if you have ever experienced a problem with composition that > compares to one I have recently experienced? > I recently composed a shot in the cabin of a small fishing boat. I framed > the shot using the clip on viewfinder. The skipper was in the foreground > looking through the cabin window. Through the window was another boat which > I centered up in the window which the skipper was looking through. > However, when the contacts were developed I found to my surprise that the > boat seen through the window in the background was not centered in the > window as I had composed it. The boat was in fact mostly blocked out by the > skipper who was in the foreground. > i.e. I seem to have experienced a problem when composing with the 24mm on > the new M6 ttl. What's in the clip on viewfinder is not always what's on > the neg! I'm quite worried about this and I will be running some tests on > this. It seems that the foreground can eclipse the background....... I > should add that the camera was also held 'sideways' for this shot. > > Barry Dinan > >> Hello Barry . I think the external viewfinder for your 24 might be able to " rock " a little bit in the flash socket . This is common problem with " cheap plastic viewfinders " like the new Leica ones . I've got an Heliar 15 mm with the viewfinder and it doesn't rock like the Leica one . Regards Jo GOODTIMES