On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 6, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Lucas Rijnders wrote: > > > Take a static subject, put your eye to the finder and let it roam > > around > > until you're satisfied? > > > > I'm not even being flippant: I liked both the OM-1 and the MX. What > > is the > > big deal with eye-relief? > > I want to see the whole frame in a glance, without moving my eye > around physically behind the eye piece. What you wrote above is fine > for a static subject and plenty of time to look around. A lot of > subject matter does not allow such a studied approach to the viewfinder. > > Godfrey >
Ditto, with the added caveat that I find a restricted view of the finder mildly uncomfortable and an active impediment to shooting. If I'm planning to shoot trult static subject matter, I'm not likely to be shooting a compact 35mm SLR but rather my 645 or 4x5, neither of which are lacking in eye relief (Especially not the latter which has effectively unlimited relief). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
