Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mikiro and John: Unless you are focusing on static objects, both you or your subject are moving before you press the shutter. Up close for head and shoulder portraits, the slight movement of you or the subject, will put things out of focus if shooting at 1.4. I think Leica teaches to get the focus and then rather than fiddle with it some more, sway forward or backward to maintain the focus when you press the shutter. In other words, if the eye no longer looks in focus, move your body a few inches one way or the other until the rangfinder images coincide. The problem I find is that the rangefinder patch is not in the part of the frame where the eye is so that you must focus on the eye and then recompose the image. It is in the recomposing that the focus gets lost when either the subject or you move. In the case of a manual focus SLR, you can just focus on the eye using any part of the groundglass and confirm focus without recomposing. Regards, Robert At 01:49 PM 4/15/99 -0700, you wrote: >Jim, > >Do you focus and stop at first pass of lining up the image, or do you "seesaw" as another person on the LUG stated as needed on the R system? I'm not sure it makes a difference, but I thought this was discussed some months ago. Like Mikiro, I have trouble getting sharp images at f1.4, mainly when using the subject's "forward eye" as the focus point. > >John > >At 01:15 PM 04/15/1999 -0700, you wrote: >>I must have a "special" M6. I use my 75/1.4 at f/1.4 a lot. That's why I >>have the bloody thing. And I DO NOT ever have a focusing problem. Whatever >>it is that you line-up them little windows on, is gonna be sharp. Really >>sharp. Period. >> >>Jim >> >> >>At 01:42 PM 4/15/99 -0500, you wrote: >>>it's probably that the M6 can't focus a 75 at 1.4...oops, the >>>company forgot to tell you that....sorry..... >>>BTW, it can't do much better with a 90 @ f2....they forgot >>>to tell you that, too... >>>That's why God made Nikons....;) :) :) >>> >>>Walt >> >