few replies below:
1)But Paul, that's exactly opposite my need, you didn't read carefully
;-) I stated I need _bright_ finder, and using stopdown
viewing/focusing, it is not exactly bright... I did that for some time
when my only wideangle was 2.8/20 screwmount CZJ on K2DMD via adapter,
and it's not nice much. At least focusing could be done by DOF when
enough light to stop down to 5.6, but I didn't like it. Also, flash
work is almost impossible.
2)JCO wrote:
vvn> Try to find a mint Chinon CM-3 with motordrive. It has a nice finder
vvn> and is all mechanical with DOF preview by pressing shutter button
vvn> partially. I have two of these and a CE-3 which is autoexposure.
vvn> JCO
Thanks for tip, I was considering some of these. I think either a
Chinon or another has a manual camera with "spotmeter" reading - a
very narrow meter? The motordrive/winder would be nice, but I dislike
the coupling of DOF/METER stopdown with shutter release. I meter far
less times than I shoot, and that also means that with shutter ready
for release, I would either have to look through dim finder, thus
missing the action due to "darkness" maybe, or take longer to press
the release, because there is additional mechanical leverage to
stopdown the lens, thuis missing the action again. As I wrote, I
dislike this style of shutter release, I prefer separate
metering/stopdown switch, or no meter at all. But I will have a look
at the chinon/others. They have interesting features.
3)Bob, is the SV finder really so better than the Spotmatics? I could
easily live without a meter in the camera, I use incident for
available light anyway, as it isn't fooled as easily as ttl, and outside I can
take spotmeter or guess the exposure with negs. How about comparing SV
finder with early K series?
Thank you all.
Good light
Frantisek
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