Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Developed some film yesterday, shot over the weekend. I lost one edge of an important image. I'm wondering if rangefinder parallax had something to do with it. I was taking a picture of the front grill of an old car (a 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk ... only 4071 were produced). I framed the image carefully in the viewfinder, making sure that I got the full grill in. I framed very close to the edges of the framelines (standard M6, 50mm lens, distance about 1.5 m away from the subject). The negative shows the right edge of the grillwork cut off. I'm sure that I framed this properly to get the entire grill in. I thought that the framelines in the viewfinder shifted slightly to compensate for close-focusing distances. However, it appears that there may be something going on that I am not aware of. At close distances with a rangefinder, is it necessary to frame more loosely, and leave some free space at the edges of the negative to compensate for parallax? - -GH