Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/22

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Subject: [Leica] Friday flower ... and more
From: pswango at att.net (pswango@att.net)
Date: Thu Sep 22 21:21:59 2005
 
Here's a Friday flower, and also instructions for making a do-it-yourself 
DSLR. ;-)

I shot this with my Panasonic LC-40, which has the same lens and imaging 
system as the Digilux 1.  The problem is, it has a squinty viewfinder and 
smallish LCD screen, so it's hard to focus a macro shot like this so that 
you can zero in on a particular part of the flower.  For some reason I got 
the idea of holding a pentaprism for a Hasselblad up against the LCD back of 
the Panasonic and looking through it like a DSLR.  Clumsy, but it worked.  I 
could use the magnified image to focus accurately while seeing the whole LCD 
image through the prism.  My prism is one of the Russian ones, but 
presumably others would work as well.

http://pswango.smugmug.com/gallery/825205/1/37082438