The D700 has a nice big viewfinder. Just saying.
:-D On 30 January 2012 21:54, Steven Desjardins <drd1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
