On Aug 17, 2006, at 11:17 PM, David Mann wrote: > On Aug 18, 2006, at 6:45 AM, Bertil Holmberg wrote: > >> What I would appreciate in a new body is the alternative to look down >> into the viewfinder. This is possible with the Pentax 67, I believe. > > Yes, with the waist-level finder. The thing I like about the 67 > viewfinder is that it's big; I recall reading somewhere that it's > 100% with the waist-level finder, but only about 80% with the prism > (a 100% prism for 6x7 is very heavy). > > With newer 35mm/DSLR bodies I suspect we'll just have to make do with > refconverters.
Yes. I use the Sony R1 is my waist level camera now with its large, top- mounted LCD. A waist level finder on 16x24mm format would be difficult to see with, it was bad enough with 35mm film SLRs. I used to use the WL and 4x Magnifying finders with my Nikon F2 and F3. And of course I used the WL finders with the Rolleiflex TLRs and Hasselblad 500C/M. Nice big focusing screens. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
