OT: RE: ME viewfinder (was Re: Zenitar 16/2.8 Fisheye)

2001-04-11 Thread Chris Brogden
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I consider myself a documentarian, not an artist. The point I wished to > make was that, even with matrix metering and autofocusing, real life is > difficult to capture accurately on film without periodic user intervention. > It is a point that Herb K

RE: ME viewfinder (was Re: Zenitar 16/2.8 Fisheye)

2001-04-09 Thread Paul . Stregevsky
Chris, I consider myself a documentarian, not an artist. The point I wished to make was that, even with matrix metering and autofocusing, real life is difficult to capture accurately on film without periodic user intervention. It is a point that Herb Keppler makes time and again in his Popular Ph

Re: ME viewfinder (was Re: Zenitar 16/2.8 Fisheye)

2001-04-09 Thread Norman Baugher
Amateur hack!! Norm Lasse Karlsson wrote: > Lasse, (not too impressed by the various definitions and labeling of >different kind of picture shooters.) - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to vi

Re: ME viewfinder (was Re: Zenitar 16/2.8 Fisheye)

2001-04-09 Thread Lasse Karlsson
gt; From: "Anthony Farr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: April 6, 2001 3:01 AM > > Subject: Re: ME viewfinder (was Re: Zenitar 16/2.8 Fisheye) > > > > > > > > - Original Message - > > > From: &qu

Re: ME viewfinder (was Re: Zenitar 16/2.8 Fisheye)

2001-04-07 Thread dave o'brien
A scroll of mail from "Peter Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:07:13 +0100 Read it? y >My hand is raised too but I don't think a camera without a built in flash >would sell in the popular market place. Perhaps a better solution would be >to move the RTF away from the viewfinder. I

Re: ME viewfinder (was Re: Zenitar 16/2.8 Fisheye)

2001-04-06 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Anthony Farr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: April 6, 2001 3:01 AM Subject: Re: ME viewfinder (was Re: Zenitar 16/2.8 Fisheye) > > - Original Message - > From: "William Johnson" <[EMAI

Re: ME viewfinder (was Re: Zenitar 16/2.8 Fisheye)

2001-04-06 Thread Anthony Farr
- Original Message - From: "William Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Show of > hands: How many folks would ditch the RTF on a ZX-5n > (or MZ-S for that matter) for a .98x magnification > viewfinder? Mine's raised. > > Thanks, > > William in Utah. > Absolutely YES, but I suppose you

Re: ME viewfinder (was Re: Zenitar 16/2.8 Fisheye)

2001-04-06 Thread Jan van Wijk
On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 22:46:29 -0500, Gary L. Murphy wrote: > >>hands: How many folks would ditch the RTF on a ZX-5n >>(or MZ-S for that matter) for a .98x magnification >>viewfinder? Mine's raised. I certainly would! - Jan van Wijk; www.

Re: ME viewfinder (was Re: Zenitar 16/2.8 Fisheye)

2001-04-06 Thread Dan Scott
>I'm with you on this one. I think you're right about >the magnification being higher than any other Pentax >SLR, _and_, to my knowledge, it is the smallest full >frame regular production 35mm SLR ever made. Show of >hands: How many folks would ditch the RTF on a ZX-5n >(or MZ-S for that matte

RE: ME viewfinder (was Re: Zenitar 16/2.8 Fisheye)

2001-04-06 Thread Peter Smith
My hand is raised too but I don't think a camera without a built in flash would sell in the popular market place. Perhaps a better solution would be to move the RTF away from the viewfinder. I recently read that the MZ has a "penta-mirror" not a pentaprism. Is that the cause of the poor viewfin