And if one likes to shoot B&W film with a red or yellow filter, you aren't looking through a red or yellow viewfinder.
Jeffery On Dec 24, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Collin Brendemuehl > <coll...@brendemuehl.net> wrote: > >> My all-time favorite classic rangefinder is the Canon G-III QL17. >> Very inexpensive and a lens which is quite good -- 40mm 1.7. >> They go < $50 in pretty good shape. Just use a 675 battery for proper >> voltage/metering. > > I also shot with the Canonet quite a bit, and really liked it. > > I found another advantage with the rangefinder. With a SLR, what you > see through the viewfinder is typically through the wide-open lens. > The result is that the background in the photograph will usually be > more cluttered than it appears in the finder. > > With a rangefinder, the opposite is true; everything is sharp in the > viewfinder, and some of it will end up blurrier in the photograph. > > For me, the RF made me more aware of distracting backgrounds, and > forced me to better compose the photo to isolate the primary subject. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
