Was RE: [Leica] IMG: John Muir Wilderness now viewfinder tilt.

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

OK, I'll share first with the group:
My name is Hoppy and I am left eyed. When I shoot in landscape format I 
frequently rotate the image about 1-2 degrees clockwise. My
right hand end of the horizon is lower. The water runs out of the right side 
of my seascapes. I think with counselling and peer
support I can get through this. 
I was actually being serious regarding the phenomenon where looking through 
a sighting system at an angle causes apparent
displacement.

Let's broaden the topic, I can never scrunch my eye too close to the 
eyepiece to see the outermost edges of the finder. I love
eyecups on SLRs. I have no idea how folks can use glasses (and I need 
correction near and far)and still see satisfactorily to the
corners.

Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: John Muir Wilderness

Since I find a consistent(?) tilt to mine also, I must think that  
there is some imperfection in viewfinders.

Of course, we should maybe be using clockwise and counterclockwise  
(right and left tilt being a bit ambiguous) to better understand

surely our viewfinders can be no less than perfect

;^)

ric


On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:29 PM, G Hopkinson wrote:

> Oh no, only the left tilters have brain tumours, us right tilters  
> are fine. The world has a 2 degree slope and we are the ones that
> are straight.
> My other theory is that left eye use forces you to angle the camera  
> outward to clear your nose. Its well known in sighting systems
> that that can displace the apparent image.
>
> Cheers
> Lefty with a right tilt Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org  
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On  
> Behalf Of
> grduprey@mchsi.com
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2007 12:46
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] IMG: John Muir Wilderness
>
> So we all have brain tumors?  Sounds like a conspiracy of  
> surgeons.  Or Leica M's cause brain tumors.  ;-)
>
> Gene
>
> -------------- Original message from "Ken Carney"  
> <kcarney1@cox.net>: --------------
>
>
>> I can't figure out the tilt thing. I also am left-eyed and left- 
>> handed, and
>> consistently get a tilt to the left. It seems to look OK in the  
>> viewfinder.
>> One of my physician clients, one with a great bedside manner, said  
>> that was
>> a symptom of a brain tumor that I needed to get checked out one of  
>> these
>> days. Maybe I can find a focus screen with grid marks, like the view
>> cameras I used to use.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
>>> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:43 AM
>>> To: Leica Users Group
>>> Subject: RE: [Leica] IMG: John Muir Wilderness
>>>
>>> At 08:10 AM 8/14/2007, you wrote:
>>>> Also proved that my head is 1.5 degrees off as I faithfully
>>>> duplicated the same tilt as I do when hand holding! I blame my left
>>>> master eye, except I never did it with SLRs.
>>>> Hoppy
>>>
>>> I do exactly the same, Hoppy, and I'm left-eyed, too. Everything
>>> tilts down to the right. Thank goodness for the Ruler Tool in PS!! I
>>> used to have a grid on my darkroom easel to try and straighten
>>> everything up, now it's the ruler tool. I do it with SLRs, too,  
>>> though.
>>>
>>> Tina
>>>
>>> Tina Manley
>>> ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI
>>> http://www.tinamanley.com
>>>