Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/28
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Recently I was flipping through one of HCB's books and the thing that I
couldn't get over was how precise his compositions at the edge of frame
was. Many of these shots were done with a LTM Leica, which does not have
parallax compensation like the M. Everything was dead on and it didn't
make a difference if it was a close-up or a wide shot and the man
printed the edge of the frame to prove that he hadn't cropped the shot
to tweak the composition. I wonder of he used an external viewfinder or
shot straight through the standard eyepiece. Either way it's pretty darn
impressive.
feli
"B. D. Colen" wrote:
>
> Sorry - the first part of this message was posted by another LUGer - the
> second was my response..b.d.
> ---
>
> None of this is meant to deny, etc., HCB's enormous talent. It is simply to
> point out that the importance of the question of milliseconds of shutter lag
> may be pretty meaningless in terms of real world photography. Yes, when one
> is talking about fast moving sports photography, milliseconds may count -
> but then I would contend that anyone shooting competitively in that realm
> today who is not using a high-speed motor drive is in serious trouble to
> begin with.
>
> B. D.
>
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