Steveh
Well-known
Hi all - I've been happily using my G1 with the 45mm lens for a couple of years now, but recently picked up the 35mm as well. I got my first roll of shots with it back this morning and can't help noticing that the borders of my shots go a long way beyond what I had seen in the finder, making a lot of the comps. much more "slack" than they looked when I was taking them.
There are a couple of shots I clearly remember framing very tightly, one close up and one at infinity, and both of them have a lot of room round the edges of the frame that wasn't there in the finder. I've tested coverage against the 45mm on a tripod and the field of view is definitely changing as I change lenses, so I don't think there's a basic mechanical problem there.
Has anyone noticed this issue with the 35mm or any of the other lenses? Is the finder more accurate with some lense than others? I normally frame pretty tightly with the 45mm and I've never noticed this issue before - the "zooming" finder is one of the reasons I tend to prefer the G1 to my M6 for a lot of things, so I'm a bit taken aback to be dealing with Leica style framing inaccuracies
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All help welcome!
Cheers, Steve
There are a couple of shots I clearly remember framing very tightly, one close up and one at infinity, and both of them have a lot of room round the edges of the frame that wasn't there in the finder. I've tested coverage against the 45mm on a tripod and the field of view is definitely changing as I change lenses, so I don't think there's a basic mechanical problem there.
Has anyone noticed this issue with the 35mm or any of the other lenses? Is the finder more accurate with some lense than others? I normally frame pretty tightly with the 45mm and I've never noticed this issue before - the "zooming" finder is one of the reasons I tend to prefer the G1 to my M6 for a lot of things, so I'm a bit taken aback to be dealing with Leica style framing inaccuracies
.All help welcome!
Cheers, Steve
Papa Smurf
Established
Green Label?
Green Label?
Hi, welcome from a fellow G1 user. Is your G1 a green label? If not, it doesn't "see" the 35mm lens and might be defaulting to the 28mm setting since it knows that the lens isn't a 45mm? I am curious to what other G1 users have to say as I am interested in using the 35mm on my non green label G1.
Green Label?
Hi, welcome from a fellow G1 user. Is your G1 a green label? If not, it doesn't "see" the 35mm lens and might be defaulting to the 28mm setting since it knows that the lens isn't a 45mm? I am curious to what other G1 users have to say as I am interested in using the 35mm on my non green label G1.
Steveh
Well-known
Yes, it's a green label (sounds like a beer!). And the problem is going in the other direction - i.e. the viewfinder coverage seems to be equivalent to 40mm or so, so the lens is wider in coverage than the viewfinder suggests.