From: Larry Colen
On 2/16/2012 12:21 PM, Don Guthrie wrote:
Thanks Jack! Point taken about both photos. The rock picture was in part
a demonstration how easy it was for me to take waist level or even knee
level pictures with a wide angle lens and K-5 using electronic level.
Saving the old back & knees.
Better than half the time when I read something like this, and it gives
me and idea for a handy, inexpensive gadget, I can find several of them
for sale on the web. To my surprise, I can't easily find any waist
level viewfinders that mount in a hot shoe. With slide in frames, or
even lines on the mirror marking various angles of view, it's something
you could make out of a piece of molded plastic and a mirror and sell
for $10 or less.
They would have been a bit problematic on manual focus SLRs, but you
could have gotten by just guessing the distance and setting focus by the
scale. On auto focus (d)SLRs they could be rather handy for discreet
event or street photography, and for something like the K-01 they could
be really handy.
The old right angle viewfinder adapter might work. Might have to search
a bit to find a new one, but they're probably available used.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/41121-REG/Pentax_30148_Right_Angle_Finder_A.html
And the LX had the "sports finder" which could be rotated into position
where it could be used as a waist level finder.
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