Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/28

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Subject: [Leica] WAS: IMG: First Gallery M8 B & W NOW-focusing M.
From: hewthompson at mac.com (Hugh Thompson)
Date: Thu Dec 28 22:26:11 2006
References: <FA95B766-9D17-43C4-ABCF-7643B3B8048B@mac.com> <001301c729d1$db886040$a302a8c0@ted> <236A8A88-14A5-4145-BD65-8EE7D6B69FF9@mac.com> <001101c729fb$dc930060$a302a8c0@ted> <E2D5E6C3-3F06-4CCD-9DA7-13AE6B569EA8@mac.com> <00e101c72a99$71fe69d0$a302a8c0@ted>

Ted - very helpful, will work at it

Many thanks

Hugh

On 28-Dec-06, at 11:01 AM, Ted Grant wrote:

> I think the vertical patch is something you'll have to work out for  
> yourself by holding the camera up and see if it's the way you hold  
> it in vertical. You might find tilting camera back and forth  
> slightly until you find the right angle for your eye and patch.
>
> Much like the "flair problem" some folks have with M camera's. When  
> this happened to me I just shifted my eye slightly and the flair  
> went away and I kept right on shooting.
>
> This doesn't mean there isn't a flair thing as it's quite real,  
> it's just a fast and easy way of getting it out of the way in the  
> middle of a shoot.


In reply to: Message from hewthompson at mac.com (Hugh Thompson) ([Leica] IMG: First Gallery M8 B & W)
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Message from hewthompson at mac.com (Hugh Thompson) ([Leica] IMG: First Gallery M8 B & W)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] IMG: First Gallery M8 B & W)
Message from hewthompson at mac.com (Hugh Thompson) ([Leica] IMG: First Gallery M8 B & W)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] WAS: IMG: First Gallery M8 B & W NOW-focusing M.)