Re: M use

[Dinu Lazar <office@graph.eunet.ro>]

Gerard Captijn wrote:

> At 11:11 PM 20/07/1997 +0800, you wrote:
> >
> >Today, I found myself being able to focus by touch of the lens alone.
> It
> >was one of those times when I was playing around with my M6, and then
> I
> >decided to test myself, I looked at objects around me, estimated the
> >distance in my head, and withoutlooking down at the lens, turned it
> to what
> >I thought would be the correct distance. When I checked with the
> >rangefinder, most times I was correct, sometimes I was close. It was
> an
> >unexpected surprise. Perhaps this is an ability that hascome out of
> much
> >use of the camera, and some aspects of handling become automatic
> responses.
> >Did anyone have this kind of experience also?
>
> Not exactly the same thing but an effective  way to speed-up focussing
> of
> Leica-M glass is to have your lenses always set on infinity (takes
> also
> less place in your bag). When you focus, you turn the distance ring
> until
> the 2 images in the finder cover. No back and forth through the point
> of
> focus as with an SLR. After having taken the picture (or the series of
>
> pictures) you set the lens back to infinity. By working like this,
> focussing is always a short travel from infinity to focus, always in
> the
> same direction.
> This focus drill could cut the time you focus by 50% and result in
> better
> pictures as you diminish the time parrallax between seeing the subject
> and
> exposing the film.
>
> Gerard Captijn.

Ok about distance; how about the time?   Gerard, your computer clock is
set to 1995...

Dinu Lazar

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