Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Ted for your advice, exactly the technique I need to learn! ...and thank you all for the comments! At 08:59 PM 1/8/2006, Ted Grant wrote: ....However good sir I must give you a small chastising! ;-) >You did not hold your camera correctly, particularly with a 15mm lens, >vertically and horizontally! I realize any number will consider this a nit >picking thing. So be it, but the difference is... when someone who really >looks intently at a photograph the first thing your eye jumps to at first >glance is.... "the camera was tilted down!" ..... Look at the sides on >frame "0012.jpg" > >Here's a little trick if you're using the 15 with an external viewfinder >on an M camera. Look through the external viewer to line up the shot, then >quickly change to the M viewfinder putting the centre patch on the same >centre point as seen externally. Now you know your angle of coverage isn't >going to change. > >Then using the vertical sides of the M internal finder, square the camera >away horizontally and vertically on a part of the wall or a line whatever >and your shot should be correct. As well as more effective than a tilted >down or up creating distortion while potentially spoiling an otherwise >very interesting photograph. >ted // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)