I have been thinking about the same. Building a finder that mounts on
the flash shoe and that you can look into from above from a distance of
at least 30cm and see (more or less) what's in scope of the camera.
The conclusion was that optically at least a mirror and a lens are
needed, but I wasn't able to work it out any further...
In the rangefinder world there are lots of flash shoe mountable
viewfinders around, to accomodate lenses of focal lengths not supported
by the internal view/rangefinder, so I would assume this also includes a
waist-level type, but I didn't see it yet. Strange?
Anyway, I join your question!
Groeten,
Vic
Toralf Lund wrote:
I've been wondering if there is there is any way I might be able to
actually see what I'm doing if I want to shoot from the hip with one of
my Pentax cameras. Are there any good options for this, besides getting
an LX and a proper waist-level finder?
I'm not necessarily looking for a finder that would allow me to focus
accurately etc, just something that would give me *some* idea of what
the lens is seeing. Maybe I might use some kind of home-made prism setup
- has anyone experimented with this? Or how about attaching the
viewfinder of an old Kodak folding camera or whatever ? And the
refconverters? Will you actually be able to see anything through those
without keeping you eye very close?
- Toralf
