On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Collin Brendemuehl <[email protected]> wrote:
> My all-time favorite classic rangefinder is the Canon G-III QL17. > Very inexpensive and a lens which is quite good -- 40mm 1.7. > They go < $50 in pretty good shape. Just use a 675 battery for proper > voltage/metering. I also shot with the Canonet quite a bit, and really liked it. I found another advantage with the rangefinder. With a SLR, what you see through the viewfinder is typically through the wide-open lens. The result is that the background in the photograph will usually be more cluttered than it appears in the finder. With a rangefinder, the opposite is true; everything is sharp in the viewfinder, and some of it will end up blurrier in the photograph. For me, the RF made me more aware of distracting backgrounds, and forced me to better compose the photo to isolate the primary subject. -- 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.
