The DR of film cured many ills, at least if you didn't shoot slides. I generally rely now on AE in reasonable light, but switch to manual and the histogram otherwise. Of course, that's often simply making the best of a bad situation. As for viewfinders, all I have to do it pick up my old SP500 to remind myself of that downhill trend. I swear I hung on to the 645 all those years just so I could look through it and sigh ;-)
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Cotty <cotty...@mac.com> wrote: > On 29/1/12, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>If you think I'm wrong, I challenge you to try to find a non SLR camera >>with a fully functioning optical viewfinder of any kind, good or bad. As >>a feature, it is almost completely phased out. > > This is the sad truth. > > The Epson R-D1, Leica M8 and 9, Fuji X100 spring to mind. My X10 is a > compromise but does the job just enough that it's useful to me. I do use > it with just the rear LCD for some shooting, but that ties in with the > subject matter, eg macro for instance. That said, if I do some > considered portraits then the A*85/1.4 goes onto either the *ist Ds or > the 1D (although I have to ask to borrow that camera :) so for me it's a > particular tool for the job. > > I would not consider a camera without a usable optical viewfinder. Must > be gettin old! > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com > _____________________________ > > > > -- > 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
