Hi, Peter Don't get so upset. Why do you take it so personally? I wouldn't mind if you criticized - let's say - the EOS 1V (which I found to be an extraordinary 35 mm camera), or the Elan 7 (of which I own one, and which I think is a great camera for its price). It's my right to love the 1V, and it's your (or anybody else's) right to hate it. It's your right to love TLR's, and it's my right not to like them. You can try to convince me to start liking them (and you have good chances to succeed, since I'd like to think I'm open-minded enough), but you don't have the right to get angry at me just because I happen not to like something that you happen to like.
> What comfort am I giving up with a TLR? I see the image at all times > including the exact time of exposure, I have flash sync at all speeds with > the leaf shutter, no mirror vibration to worry about, and yes there are > auxiliary close lenses so I can macro work as well. > I would advise you to try a TLR before you condemn them! Firstly, I don't condemn them. I just said they are a little less comfortable than 35mm cameras, and you can't argue that. Secondly, I actually tried a TLR (albeit not a super-advanced model) and I found its focusing screen to be extremely difficult to use in plain sunshine. Maybe there are better focusing screens, but unfortunatelly I didn't have one of them. Not to mention that the waist-level finder made the camera difficult to use without a tripod. And yes, you can synchronize the flash at all speeds, but the leaf shutter has its price. You are not able to go past 1/500 s (or 1/1000 on newer and more expensive lenses), and you get a slight overexposure in the center (especially when using flash). I don't question the fact that experienced people are able to use TLR's without any problem, but that still doesn't mean that TLR's are as comfy as 35 mm cameras (which I believe is what you are saying). > FYI, a reflex camera indicate that you are not looking at the subject > directly but through a secondary device such as a mirror that reflects the > image to the focusing screen of a TLR, or in the case of an SLR like your > Mamiya, onto a 5 sided prism in the viewfinder. It has nothing to do with > parallax. Oh, OK, OK... I know what a "reflex camera" means literally. I was speaking figuratively. The most important reason for inventing reflex cameras was to be able to view exactly the same image as the film does. That's the whole point in building such a camera. By "not a truely reflex camera" I meant that TLR's lack exactly this capability - to show the photographer the EXACT image that the film will "see" at the moment of exposure. And I'm not talking about parallax correctors, I'm talking about the viewfinder being correct by itself, without any accessories. > Since I have used both the Mamiya 645AF and the newer 645AFD with both film > and the Leaf digital back I have first hand experience with this system > including all of the systems lenses which I have used, especially the > 55-110mm zoom. I can tell you the pros and cons of each first hand from my > own use. Please do. I'm very interested in finding out more about this Mamiya. Vlad S. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
