Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal wrote: > > I am being troubled by the R8 viewfinder. The manual says that it covers > 93% of the image (96% vertically and 97% horizontally). Leica claims that > this corresponds to the usable or "viewable" image you get with framed > slides. > > However, I have quite often experienced that feet are "cut off" on my > pictures (slides or photos) although I am quite positive that they were > completely visible in the finder at the time the picture was taken. This > happened a lot of times. Right now, I have to foresee this by adding more > space at the bottom of the image. By the way, this only seems to be > happening at the bottom of the image (but it would in any case be less > noticeable at the upper side). > > I checked with the development center about this: they claim it is the > camera and not them. Indeed, I carefully checked negatives, and this > seems to prove they're right. Of course, there is some loss when > printing, but this does not fully explain the extent of the loss I am > experiencing. > > Anyone having made the same observation? Pascal, Mount camera on tripod. Focus and frame on something where the bottom cutoff is easy to note. Open back of camera and put a piece of tissue paper or a spare ground glass across the film plane and look at the image and compare to finder image. It could be mirror not aligned. This is easiest to do in a room with camera pointed toward window. donal - -- Donal Philby San Diego http://www.donalphilby.com