Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/20

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Subject: RE: [Leica] using my M6HM
From: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 12:33:25 -0700

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francesco Sanfilippo [mailto:fls@san.rr.com]
> 
> I have been shooting exclusively with an M6HM and a 35/2 ASPH
> and I am finding too much fluff and garbage around the edges of
> my negatives.  Feet, arms, halves of other bodies, halves of trees,
> pieces of trash on the ground, you get the idea.......

Might the problem be that either the extra eye motion required by the HM
finder or the extra visual angle out to the edge of the frame makes you less
likely to/able to examine the edges of the frame?  If this were happening,
you might get unconsciously lazy and not catch the extra stuff going on out
there.

Certainly a 50 will be easier in this regard as the frame is smaller.  But
going to a 50 changes your way of seeing and composing - is this what you
really want?

Paul Chefurka