Hi,
Rodgers is not the only one having problems with framing the image.
Some of my problems is inattention to detail, not noticing what is
happening outside my main subject, not watching for trees or telephone
poles growing out of people's heads, not taking into account the
viewfinders 92% field of view - the usual errors.
The viewfinder itself is a problem. I wear glasses with a -8 diopter
correction. The eyepiece diopter correctors don't correct enough for me
to shoot without my glasses. With the glasses on I can only see 2
adjacent borders of the frame at the same time, and certainly not the
corners. If the shot is hand held, bouncing my head around to look for
the corners and the edges just wobbles the camera, distorting the
composition. Using a tripod does help with the composing. Cropping the
scanned image helps, too :-)
I have mostly been using a Program Plus and K1000. I was about to buy
a MZ-M. Is there another camera that works better for people with
glasses, something else I should look at? Or, can the viewfinder
diopter adjuster thingies (I'm sure that is the correct Canadian
technical term) be stacked to get a higher correction and still keep my
eye close enough to the viewfinder to see the whole frame? Are there any
better options than using a tripod and taking more time?
Thanks.
Rodger Whitlock wrote:
<snip> there has been a repeated remark that my photos would be
> better if they were more carefully framed to avoid cutting off
> interesting things at the edge. This tells me that (like many other
> amateurs) I need to pay closer attention to what is in the
> viewfinder and take more time in composing each shot.
<snip>
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Dave Maki
Calgary, Alberta
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