Welcome to the Brotherhood, Mark! You may find the non-TTL finder just fine, since the TTL meter is full-area averaging, and not as accurate as a hand-held meter, in my experience, at least.
thanks Pat.
I feel pretty comfortable using the hand held meter, except that I'll be using it as a reflective meter or as a spot meter in some instances, as opposed to simply using it as an incident meter. While I use my hand held meter a lot, it struck me that I'm not entirely certain how to use it in some some circumstances - like when shooting a sunset (into the sun.) But heck, I can always use a 35mm slr as my "meter" in those cases!
As for image quality, it's all there, but you may find all your errors are more obvious as well. The shallower depth of field of the longer lenses makes focusing more critical, for example. Well, if it was easy, everybody would be doing it, right?
I have to say that focusing without the split screen leaves me feeling a bit uncertain - the focusing screen in my Spotmatic had the same configuration and I never felt too comfortable with it. But the built in DOF preview in every lens is a help!
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
http://www.markcassino.com
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