Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 11/11/00 10:59 am, John Collier at jbcollier@home.com wrote: > I read about a helpful aid to visualisation the other day and, unlike most > things you read about, it works and is very useful. Take a cut out mount the > size of your film format ‹35mm and medium format use a slide mount, for LF, > you would have to make one‹and hold it the the focal length distance away > from your eye. Bingo, you see what is going to be in the frame. You can also > get a rough idea of the amount of shifting you may have to do but, of > course, it is no help with the tilts :-). With 35mm it gets a little hard to > measure and hold things accurately enough to differentiate between 21mm and > 24mm but it works very well for the longer lenses and larger formats. That's exactly what I do with 4x5. I have a 4x5 aperture cut out of a 10x8 mat, and a corresponding ruler thing I made up with notches for my various focal lengths (90, 127, 203 mm). Works just great. This is how a 'sports' finder works on a press camera, of course. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com