RE: [Leica] Re: Using the Elmarit-M 24 without aux finder

[Jim Laurel <jplaurel@microsoft.com>]

Thanks to all who responded.  I have been wanting to add a 24 or 28mm lens
to my M kit for some time, as the 21 is often just too wide.  Since I
already had the 21, however, I decided to go for the 28.  Just got back the
first results from it today and now understand why this lens has earned such
a good reputation over the years!

- --Jim

- -----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brick [mailto:jimbrick@photoaccess.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 2:48 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: Using the Elmarit-M 24 without aux finder


I don't wear glasses and it seems to work for me...

Jim

At 10:52 PM 5/11/99 +0200, you wrote:
>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
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>--
>Nathan Wajsman
>Overijse, Belgium
>General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator
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