There's been some discussion about view finders and their virtues. My
1st Pentax slr was actually a Ricoh which used the pentax screw-mount .
I can't remember the model but it's still around the basement somewhere
and I still have the lenses (mostly Sears & JC Penny). I picked this
model because it had a conventional viewfinder and a view finder on top
as a poor man's waist level view. I had become somewhat accustomed to
waist level taking pictures of high school basketball games with a
Yashica TTL. Yeah really. Anyway I liked the Ricoh enough to buy a
second body.
My first serious digital camera was a Nikon P&S which had an articulated
viewfinder as well as standard eyepiece. I still use it when I need to
shoot over my head like at a parade. And I used for a couple decent
ground level views. But its many other shortcomings led me to a real
DSLR and I went back to Pentax.
I did miss that moveable viewfinder the Nikon had. Now I have a K-5. I
justified its purchase because of built in level. I have always had
straiten 99 % of my photos. Now the K-5 has mostly cured that.
But my biggest surprise was the leveling could also be viewed on the
topside LCD. That has meant that with a wide-angle lens I could hold the
camera at waist level or even near the ground and using top LCD pretty
much get what I had intended. And I don't get my knees wet!
If you stayed with me so far here is your reward - an example photo.
http://donspix.posterous.com/like-a-rock-a-black-and-white-winter-scenic-w#!/
C&C on conversion and composition etc.are all fair game. But I would
never have taken this photo without the K-5.
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