One can work with an SLR that way, as I have demoed a few times, but most folks figure that when the are looking through the lens they have to fiddle focus.
I will forever remember flabbergasting Mister Bunnyears at GFM. He was going on about how you could not do unobtrusive street photography with a winder equipped camera when I lifted my MX to my eye shot a photo of him and dropped the camera down before letting it wind on. He stammered an incredulous, "What did you just do?" It is definitely not what camera you have, but how you use it. But even after saying that, I still love rangefinder cameras. Graywolf (Tom Rittenhouse) Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cotty wrote: > > One thing I would say is that I had forgotten how much fun rangefinders > are. To me, totally different way of photographing. With an SLR I tend > to stay glued to the finder, picking off as I will. With a RF, it stays > down low, usually pre-focussed, only popping up moments before the frame > is exposed, then swings down again, eyes scanning, anticipating the next > shot. I appreciate some will work like this with an SLR (digital and > film) but not with me. With the SLR, it tends to drop only an inch or > two, eyes scanning, then pops up for some more picking off. The RF drops > right down to waist level, almost like it's resting in camouflage. I can > see that HCB has a lot to answer for! > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
