Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]An open question regarding M's and lenses with good flatness of field--suppose I'm shooting wide-open with a wide angle lens and my subject is, say, a person who's pretty close, and I want the eyes to be sharp. I focus on the person's eyes in the center of the finder, but that's not what I want in composition, so I move that person close to the edge of the frame. Technically, it seems to me that if the field-plane is truly flat, that will back-focus the eyes of the person when I change the composition. Please bear with this ludicrous example of why I flunked math; I cut out a triangle, representing the field of view of a wide-angle lens, and kept one point pinned to its place. The center of the opposing side was where I imaginarily focused on a subject, that side being the focal plane. When I shift the triangle it covers the point of focus and seems to prove that it would backfocus on sensitive, precise wide-aperture focusing. I'm still trying to decide between R's and M's. Am I full of it? somebody let me know. Thanks...