Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Finally my very first post to the list from 16 Nov 1999: Hello I am a newbe to this list and have enjoyed listening in on all the chatter. I have been following the perennial wysiwyg SLR over rangefinder debate and would like to offer up some comments. In a SLR you are not seeing what the image will really look like unless you are shooting wide open. In a quickly changing scene it is easy to be surprised by what you did not see in your wide open SLR viewfinder. I prefer the rangefinder as you always "see" the whole depth of a scene and can easily learn to estimate depth of field coverage. Now of course when you get close with a rangefinder, it is all to easy to have parallax error (forgive me for such elementary concepts) rear its confusing head (or perhaps lack of one). I must confess that I am not a spectacularly bright fellow and have a tough time switching from rangefinder to SLR. The momentary black out and enormous clank leaves me a little dazed and wanting sit down and have a little rest. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html