Re: LX's viewfinder brightness

2001-05-01 Thread Aaron Reynolds
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The LX's viewfinder is excellent. The best I have seen thru. A Nikonian friend simply told Wow! when he saw thru it. Another friend, pentaxian, uses ME super and MZ 5, he uses the ME Super most of the time due to the brighter viewfinder (and when he saw thru the

Re: LX's viewfinder brightness

2001-04-30 Thread Creature's Comfort
I went out shooting with another Pentax owner some months ago. I was using the LX with an SA-23 screen and an A28/2.0 lens. Raph was using a PZ-1p and a Tokina 2.8 zoom. He was startled at how bright the LX finder was. -- Sheldon Belinkoff CREATURE'S COMFORT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: LX's viewfinder brightness

2001-04-30 Thread Tonghang Zhou
So everyone should save their money from 50mm/1.2 or any other fast lens, and use it to buy an LX? You get 2 stops brighter view from ALL your lenses. How often do you actually use 50mm at 1.2? Never? It's the brighter finder view you were after, right? I did my comparison with the FA-1,

Re: LX's viewfinder brightness

2001-04-30 Thread Gerald F. Cermak
viewfinder brightness So everyone should save their money from 50mm/1.2 or any other fast lens, and use it to buy an LX? You get 2 stops brighter view from ALL your lenses. How often do you actually use 50mm at 1.2? Never? It's the brighter finder view you were after, right? I did my comparison

Re: LX's viewfinder brightness

2001-04-30 Thread Bob Blakely
Ah... I use f/1.2 quite a bit - and still trying to hand hold at 1/15th with ISO 1600 film. Regards, Bob... Give blood. Play hockey. From: Tonghang Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] So everyone should save their money from 50mm/1.2 or any other fast lens, and use it to buy an LX? You get 2 stops

50/1.2 used at 1.2 (was Re: LX's viewfinder brightness)

2001-04-30 Thread Gerald Cermak
Bob Blakely writes: Ah... I use f/1.2 quite a bit - and still trying to hand hold at 1/15th with ISO 1600 film. I find a couple of alcoholic drinks before shooting helps smooth out my jitters enough to get 1/15 and 1/30s handheld shots sharp enough at f/1.2 that the shake is less than the