Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/10

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Subject: RE: [Leica] camera VF vs. external VF
From: "Mitch Zeissler" <zeissler@directvinternet.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 05:47:51 -0400

Alastair...

Same for me.  For medium to long distance shots, I use the camera viewfinder
for focusing and an external viewfinder for composition.  For close focus
shots with normal to wide-angle lenses, it's the same; with the 135, it's
only through the camera viewfinder.

/Mitch
_________________________________________
Mitch Zeissler
  E-mail: zeissler@directvinternet.com

> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 6:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 or not to M7, c'est la question - LONG
>
> The other "devil" in the rangefinder -- for me-- is the central focal
> patch. When I first got the cle, every one of the images had the main
> subject dead centre. I would choose an f stop, let the camera set the
> shutter, focus and fire -- I was forgetting to compose. Now I try
> very hard to either focus before raising the camera so I concentrate
> on composition, or focus and then compose. The external viewfinder
> and using the "o" series cameras have helped reinforce these messages.
>
> Cheers
> --
> Alastair Firkin


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