best way to focus a Leica M wide open - fast

[Herr Barnack]

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...prefocus and then do tiny adjustments when you see you are off...

This is what works for me.

[Michael Geschlecht]

Hello Everybody,

 

I agree with Tailwagger in his Post #13, this Thread: I find that rotating the camera/lens about 45 degrees counterclockwise when focusing becomes complex can sometimes be helpful. 

 

Sometimes it is helpful when you are in a hurry. Sometimes it is helpful when it is just difficult to focus.

 

I think that the reason that 45 degree rotated focusing sometimes makes focusing easier is: When a person moves the image: left to right/right to left OR down/up: The 2 rangefinder images are moving in 1 direction only. When the camera/lens is rotated 45 degrees then the 2 previously mentioned sets of rangefinder images appear to move, converge & meet from different directions simultaneously.  

 

Best Regards,

 

Michael

Edited April 21, 2016 by Michael Geschlecht

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[fweens]

As for a month ago I was official photographer for an event and my Canon 1Dx broke -power supply board problem. During the whole week I shot with my M + 35mm. It was great. During the day I had no problem at all.

In the dance clubs at night it was more painful ; hard to focus when people dance and when light is really low :-(

Best,

Franck

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