Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, I cannot imagine using this lens without the finder. I believe that part of the rationale for having a wide angle lens like this is to include, well, a wide angle of coverage in your picture. This means that what happens around the edges is fairly important to your composition, and without the finder you effectively lose that view. I once forgot to take the finder along on a trip and was not at all happy with the resulting slides. I wear glasses; if you don't you may have better luck. Nathan Jim Laurel wrote: > Among those of you using this lens regularly, do all of you use the > auxiliary finder? Do you find it's possible to squint around the edges of > the 28mm frame in the .72x and gauge the 24mm frame accurately? Though it > would have to be an acquired skill to know the 24mm framing instictively, > the 28mm framelines would move as you focus, giving an approximation of the > parallax error. > > --Jim - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator Belgium photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman