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

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Subject: RE: [Leica] using my M6HM
From: "Francesco Sanfilippo" <fls@san.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:56:06 -0700

The only complication I can see is that I would have to back up
a bit more to get the wide angle perspective with the 50mm.

Francesco Sanfilippo
francesco@incsystems.com
Webmaster & Network Administrator,
InContact Systems, MentorU.Com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Paul
> Chefurka
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 12:33 PM
> To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] using my M6HM
>
>
> > -----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
>