Hi, I just started using my new Moskva 5 folding 6x9 rangefinder, and since my earlier MF experience was with a TLR, I'm not used to adjusting for the slight difference between the area seen in the rangefinder and the actual borders of the image on the negative. You can actually see the bellows on the left as you look thru the rangefinder, which makes me think I have to compose the image a little higher and to the right of where I think the lens will aim. Is there any sort of rule of thumb anyone goes by (other than the longer the distance, the less the difference)? Thanks!

-- Lisa Kernan (lkernan@library.ucla.edu), November 04, 2001

Answers

Unless a camera has automatic parallax corection in a brightline viewfinder (which most do not have)you have to learn by experience. I've had most success including a bit more in the frame and then cropping when I print, but that assumes print film and not transparencies.

-- Jeff Polaski (polaski@acm.org), November 05, 2001.

What I do is just get in the habit of aiming at a point that's the same distance up and to the left of my intended target as the viewfinder is from the lens..... then it doesn't matter how close or far away the subject is.

rick :)=

-- Rick Oleson (rick_oleson@yahoo.com), November 06, 2001.