Desmolicious wrote:
@rji2goleez@ Bob, I gotta say that's a fine looking pick up and healthy looking trash cans.
You guys just slay me -- every picture has a dog as the foreground subject, but you pretend that something insignificant in the background is actually the subject of the photo!
I think it's time that we admit that for some of us this forum is not really about film photography -- it's about dog photography.
madNbad wrote:
Is it like using any other accessory finder, focus with the rangefinder then move to the finder to frame? Also, if you could, it would be great to see the view through the various WLF in a row. Rollei, Nikon, Leica and the Canon Ace just to give us an a better look.
Yup focus with the rangefinder, view w the WLF if you want pin perfect wide open focus. I’ve actually been getting good estimating distances - I practiced by guestimatimg focus and setting it on the lens, then checking by viewing through the rangefinder - and so have been ‘zone focusing’ after doing that for a while.
Desmolicious wrote:
I have no idea who you could mean...
At the moment I am struggling a little bit with it, using the WLF on a Rolleiflex or Nikon slr is much easier due to size and it being a WYSIWYG image. But perhaps with practice it will get easier -akin to using an RF camera for the first time after being used to SLRs.
But the perspective thing is what I have been talking about. It makes images more intimate. Love it.
I going to try out a WLF for my Contax 645 and Pentax 67II. Curious how they'll be.
You're braver than I am, shooting toward the sun with a Leica. Is it only risky stopped down? I'm always leery of burning holes in my shutter so I generally avoid shooting toward the sun but maybe I'm being too cautious.
bjhurley wrote:
You're braver than I am, shooting toward the sun with a Leica. Is it only risky stopped down? I'm always leery of burning holes in my shutter so I generally avoid shooting toward the sun but maybe I'm being too cautious.
I only do it when the sun is low in the sky, then it is pretty much impossible to burn a hole. Think about trying to use a magnifying glass to cause a burn, and when you could do that. Also the lens needs to be focused at infinity.
coralnut wrote:
are those shutters particularly frail?
They're made of cloth, not metal, so you can burn holes in them easily. Not sure if the M6 uses a cloth shutter, but my M2 does. My Canon P has a metal shutter so I don't worry about it as much although I've been told that even that can be damaged if you point it at the sun with the lens stopped down. That has the same effect as focusing a magnifying glass on a piece of paper: it starts to burn.
All fillm Ms are cloth shutter. A metal shutter can also get damaged the same way, but it take much more time. It happens the quickest w the lens wide open (not stopped down) and focused at infinity.
Leica even mentions in the owner's manual to avoid the situation. SLRs are immune to this as the shutter is never directly exposed - but your eyeball will be!
