Re: [Leica] anyone using 24mm

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Dans un courrier daté du 16/08/00 15:03:38 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été), 
telyt560@cswebmail.com a écrit :

<< On Wed, 16 August 2000, "Barry Dinan" wrote:
 
 > 
 > To anyone using 24mm for your M6:
 > 
 > I'm wondering if you have ever experienced a problem with composition that 
 > compares to one I have recently experienced?
 > I recently composed a shot in the cabin of a small fishing boat.  I framed 
 > the shot using the clip on viewfinder.  The skipper was in the foreground 
 > looking through the cabin window.  Through the window was another boat 
which 
 > I centered up in the window which the skipper was looking through.
 > However, when the contacts were developed I found to my surprise that the 
 > boat seen through the window in the background was not centered in the 
 > window as I had composed it.  The boat was in fact mostly blocked out by 
the 
 > skipper who was in the foreground.
 > i.e. I seem to have experienced a problem when composing with the 24mm on 
 > the new M6 ttl.  What's in the clip on viewfinder is not always what's on 
 > the neg!  I'm quite worried about this and I will be running some tests on 
 > this.  It seems that the foreground can eclipse the background.......  I 
 > should add that the camera was also held 'sideways' for this shot.
 > 
 > Barry Dinan
 > 
 
 >>
Hello Barry .       I think the external viewfinder for your 24 might be able 
to " rock " a little bit in the flash socket .
This is common problem with " cheap plastic viewfinders " like the new Leica 
ones .
I've got an Heliar 15 mm with the viewfinder and it doesn't rock like the 
Leica one .
Regards                                
                                                                        Jo 
GOODTIMES