RE: [Leica] M6 Question....

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Dr. Blacktape Responds:

I was thinking about field of view, rather than depth of field or
compression of field. On the other hand, normal vision provides what appears
to be, even if it is illusion, incredible depth of field...

But the bottom line is that it all depends on what please you
aesthetically....I personally like what I can do with the 35 and what it can
do for me...although there are times a 50 is ideal.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> InfinityDT@aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 1999 2:08 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 Question....
>
>
> In a message dated 7/10/99 1:38:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> bdcolen@earthlink.net writes:
>
> << A Thought From Dr. Blacktape:
>
>  As through this world we wander - appologies to Woodie Guthrie -
> we do not
>  "see" through 50 mm frame lines, but through framelines that
> appear to Dr.
>  BT to be somewhere between 35 and 24 mm. If that's the "normal" field of
>  vision, why not make something in that range your "normal" lens?
>   >>
>
> A healthy person's peripheral vision is much wider than a 50mm as
> you say.
> It is the foreground:background (compression/expansion) of the
> 50mm that most
> closely resembles what the naked eye sees, not the field of view.
>  This isn't
> readily apparent looking through a Leica M viewfinder because the
> only thing
> changing are the framelines.  It's always been hard for me, when
> switching
> back and forth from an SLR, to overcome the tendency to want to
> always use
> the lens that gives the biggest viewable picture in the M's finder.  Try
> looking through a Leica 28mm accessory finder (or a 28 on an SLR)
> alongside
> the 28mm frames in an M6 for a direct comparison.  You'll see
> that the 28mm
> (bewteen 35 and 24 as you say) is *not* how we see with our naked
> eyes.
>
> DT
>