Cotty wrote:
On 8/8/05, Toralf Lund, discombobulated, unleashed:
I've been wondering if there is there is any way I might be able to
actually see what I'm doing if I want to shoot from the hip with one of
my Pentax cameras. Are there any good options for this, besides getting
an LX and a proper waist-level finder?
I'm not necessarily looking for a finder that would allow me to focus
accurately etc, just something that would give me *some* idea of what
the lens is seeing. Maybe I might use some kind of home-made prism setup
- has anyone experimented with this? Or how about attaching the
viewfinder of an old Kodak folding camera or whatever ? And the
refconverters? Will you actually be able to see anything through those
without keeping you eye very close?
Seems to me you want a waist-level finder, plain and simple.
<http://www.bdimitrov.de/kmp/focusing/viewfinders/FF-1.jpg>
Yes, that's what I really want, but it won't just fit on any old camera,
right? Unless you really bring out the tools... Has anyone tried that? I
mean, modify other bodies so that the LX viewfinders will fit.
But of course, the view-finder setup alone might be reason enough to buy
an LX...
Cheers,
Cotty
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