[Leica] Eyes wide shut WAS M6 TTL .58 accurate with a Noctilux?

[Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>]

I pretty much always shoot with both eyes open. It's like eating olives or
touch typing... odd at first but after a few days you wonder how you ever
managed without it. I have no problem with the .72 mag on my M4s. It gets a
bit weird when you're shooting on the 25 through the hotshoe finder but even
then I do it. What's odd is the way that in your brain you can *switch eyes*
so that one moment you're composing the picture, the next you're watching
for that kid who's just out of frame on the left to run across your path.
- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com


> From: Brougham <brougham3@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 02:57:09 -0700 (PDT)
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Re: M6 TTL .58 accurate with a Noctilux?
> 
> "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> if you are brought up to shoot a particular way, like keeping both
>> those eyes open, then the .58 is a problem......the left and right
>> eyes are viewing too different an image, and the brain will not
>> overlap the 2 into 1 image..... It works on the M3 (.91) and barely
>> with the M6/M2.... It would work with the M6HM .85... but the M6 .58
>> would create too small an image,..,...
> 
> Shooting with both eyes open is unnatural to me.  It feels awkward.
> But I've done it to get the picture.
> 
> With a telephoto aimed at a baseball player up to bat, I don't know of
> any other easy way to determine when to hit the shutter than to also
> watch the pitcher and ball.  The eye looking through the telephoto
> sees a magnified picture.  The two aren't joined together at all...but
> it's still possible to make sense of what you're seeing.  It's just
> mind numbing for a bit.  :)
> 
> 
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