It's more the difference in the position of objects relative to each other (perspective) that is of more concern shooting a TLR close in than the error in framing (which is what the correction tries to compensate for). The paramender device Mamaya produced that you describe corrects for the perspective/parallax error. A. Adams was bothered by this and avoided TLRs and rangefinders because of it... Eric Goldstein
> Eric > Thanx. This is exactly what I was trying to say. I suppose the way to > think about it is that a parallax corrected range finder can look over > things that the tanking lens cannot. But why couldn't Ansel buy a > paramander or crank his tripod up the 1-1/2 inches? For hand holding,, > with a little thought, he could teach himself to compose with a 1-1/2 > inch bend in his knees. > David
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