The lens wasn't dead centre on Spotmatics either. Certainly not off-centre as much as a modern dslr, but off-centre none-the-less.
Same goes with older rangefinders, including Leica Ms. What I don't get is, wouldn't you reframe as a matter of course when you rotate your camera? I cannot imagine many situations where (even if the lens were dead centre) one would change the orientation of the camera and not need to recompose and reframe. Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: John Celio <n...@neovenator.com> Sent: January 1, 2012 1/1/12 To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: The problem with modern camera design Earlier tonight I was having some fun photographing holiday lights when I realized something: now that pretty much all cameras have a much smaller left shoulder than film cameras of old, the lens is no longer in the center of the body. This means that if you rotate your camera as if you were turning a steering wheel, the lens moves in a circle rather than rotating in one spot. I realize this doesn't affect many people, but when I was rotating my camera while taking long exposures of light strands, I could never get the lens to be at the center of rotation, and that was frustrating. So I came home and took a few dozen photos of my cats. Welcome to 2012. John -- http://www.jacelio.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
