Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica]Zen focusing was (LUG) srews
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 17:03:09 -0500

Dan S wrote:
> 
> You have given me an idea!  I have found the lack of a light meter on
> my LTM actually speeds up my shooting.  Could this also be the case with
> focusing?

Absolutely.  For an afternoon of meditation, I stick the 50/3.5 (although
it's Russian ;) on the Leica II and load with Tri-X (yeah -- cheating, I
know! ;)  Set exposure at 1/200 f/8, focus at 3m.  Keeps stuff from about
2.5m-4m in focus (or something like that).  Then just walk around and when
you see interesting things happening about 3m infront of the camera, a
quick snap captures it for posterity.

It's delightful!

M.

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