Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff, There is no reason for simply mounting the wide lens of your choice and using your M4 without a finder, except that with a 24mm, you will clearly get a lot in your pictures (around the edges) that you did not see in the finder. You will then be able to crop it out at the printing stage, but then what is the point of a 24mm lens if you effectively are using only 28mm or less of the coverage angle? For that reason, I feel that with anything wider than a 28mm, getting the appropriate external finder is essential. Nathan Jeff Albertson wrote: > > Hi all > Another rudimentary question from a long time Nikon SLR user with his > first > Leica. Obviously the widest frameline on the M4 is for a 35mm lens. I > prefer > a shorter wideangle, so I'm wondering what optic approximates the whole > frame you see through an M4 viewfinder? I don't want to use a separate > finder unless I have to and I don't want to convert to the more visually > complicated M6 type finder with 28mm framelines. > Guessing that the whole finder shows approximately a 28mm view, is there > any > reason I can't just mount a rangefinder-coupled 28 or 24mm lens and just > focus as usual using the whole finder as my "frameline"? > Thanks Jeff Albertson > > _________________________________________________________________ > Getting married? Find great tips, tools and the latest trends at MSN Life > Events. http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=married > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 General photo site: http://www.nathanfoto.com/index.html Seville photos: http://www.fotosevilla.com/index.html