[Leica] The View From My Office-

[bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)]

That's right - it was my favorite Trot who told us how to do this! Right as
usual, Ted! :-)


On 4/26/06 2:20 PM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:

> B. D. Colen offered:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The View From My Office-
> 
> 
>> I, too, am impressed. But as all of you have been telling us about this
>> and
>> similar lenses, DAMN but you have to line up the edges of your shot
>> correctly. You can't just take grab shots with something like this and not
>> expect them to  look like something from the fun house.:-)<<<<
> 
> Hi B. D.,
> Absolutely!! I find in many cases people who go on about distortion with
> super-wides don't have a clue how to use the lens in the first place.
> 
> But a simple hand holding manner with some practice this works beautifully.
> While looking through the internal viewfinder using the sides of the
> viewfinder to line up vertical lines as one is composing, 99% of the time
> the picture looks great! Practice makes it a whole lot better!
> 
> And if you require a lower perspective..... bend your knees!! Don't tilt 
> the
> camera down! Obviously a slightly higher angle, climb up on something to
> gain the height, don't tilt the camera up!
> 
> The least bit of tilt down or up and the picture is screwed... period~!
> 
> That is unless you want distortion, then go wild and tilt it way up or 
> down,
> that puts a completely different perspective beyond reality and it's
> accepted by the eyes.
> 
> A miserable little mis-handling and you'll be whining all over the place
> that this lens has distortion. When in fact it's the idiot handling the
> camera!
> 
> ted
> 
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