Help! Parallax Error!

[tal bedrack]

So. I've been using my Isolette I for quite some time now, and I love it. Really, Really love it.
one thing I can't seem to get the hang of, is how I should address the parallax error.
How do you develope a hunch for it? How can I train myself to succesfuly compensate this issue and get a better control over close ups?
Attached a wonderfull image, which was undercompensated and ruined for the most dreaded Paralax Error! the gap inside the sign was suposed to be showing a beautifuly placed skyline of Jaffa.
Thanks!

 

[Peltigera]

If the viewfinder is (say) an inch above the centre of the lens, frame the shot and raise the camera one inch - easier if on a tripod.

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[summicron1]

So. I've been using my Isolette I for quite some time now, and I love it. Really, Really love it.
one thing I can't seem to get the hang of, is how I should address the parallax error.
How do you develope a hunch for it? How can I train myself to succesfuly compensate this issue and get a better control over close ups?
Attached a wonderfull image, which was undercompensated and ruined for the most dreaded Paralax Error! the gap inside the sign was suposed to be showing a beautifuly placed skyline of Jaffa.
Thanks!

You almost always end up guessing. the tripod trick is your best bet. Mamiya even made a device for its TLR cameras that allowed you to frame with the viewing lens, then raise the camera precisely the distance of lens separation before shooting.

but perhaps you might also consider the fact that there are some shots best done with through the lens viewing via an slr.

 

[ic-racer]

Someone should invent a camera that lets one compose through the taking lens....

 

[gone]

Those Isolettes are wonderful shooters. The only thing I can say is that after a while (and after a lot of missed shots) you get a feel for this. It's different on every camera too.

 

[OptiKen]

.....and different at every distance

 

[Bill Burk]

That is really a funny shot.

I say that because it reminds me of a shot that I once made at a mission with an OM-1 because I "knew" it would prove without a doubt that an SLR was superior to a rangefinder.

I lined up a cross at a distant graveyard through a fencepost of the outer mission wall. Any parallax would have caused the cross to vanish.

But it was a dumb idea in my case, the picture felt forced, and it wasn't successful.

Your shot had a better chance of being interesting had you pulled it off...

 

[tal bedrack]

Practice does it
I'm somewhat of a control freak and SLRs meet my preferences perfectly. I appriciate a well composed
picture and have trouble letting go of the precision involved in framing a shot. But I sure love my
Isoette. Well, guess I'll have to fine tune to a rangefinder style of shooting and composing.
Here's a shot from the same roll that came out as expected.

 

[rwreich]

Nice shot, Tal. I found this thread while thinking about the same issue for my Nikon S2.


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[Ko.Fe.]

"Know your limit, play within it".
You are not going to get it right even with parallax compensating RF cameras.
For shots like these SLRs and mobile phones are the best.
To me this picture is worth of mobile phone shot and sharing on FB, IMO.

 

[blockend]

Embrace the unforeseen. My favourite walk round camera is Voigtlander Bessa L with a 50mm lens and a Voigtlander Kontur finder. The view is 45mm and blank, you keep both eyes open to see the frame. Focus in by scale on the lens, my guess work is good enough for f2.8. You might imagine shooting with it to be like typing in boxing gloves, but it's the most liberating experience and I get as many hits as any camera I've used. Because I don't peer through an eyepiece to see the world, it's incredibly liberating.

Precise framing is overrated and frequently predictable.