I also have no trouble with the f-stop reading in the MX viewfinder, and I'll agree that the LEDs are a bit hard to see in bright light. Would a rubber eye-cup help this problem?
As for info, I see shutter and f-stop being a bare minimum, especially useful, if like me, you are just starting. I've used a borrowed canon AV-1 before and I'm not a fan of the match needle and no f-stop display. Of course, I'm also not a fan of aperture-priority with only a small "backlight" but to control exposure compensation (ok, ok you could change the film speed). I mostly wasn't a fan of the plasticky Canon FD lens. But now I'm starting to wander... on 4/22/02 5:37 PM, frank theriault at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, Lukasz, > > I'm with you on this one: I've had no trouble reading the f-stop in the MX > viewfinder. With the possible exception of when the ring is "between stops", > and the numerals aren't in the lttle viewer's "area". No problem moving the > ring 1/2 stop one way or the other, to see where I am, however. I guess > that's > a downside of optical/mechanical viewfinder info, but on a fully mechanical > body, I suppose there's not much choice. I'd rather it be that way, so if > batteries go kaput, I still have that info (minus the meter, obviously) at > hand. > > I do appreciate having the f-stop (along with the shutter speed) in the > viewfinder. I don't always have to check it, but since I'm used to my > stop-down > old Spotties, you know about how far you're stopped down by the brightness (or > darkness) of the viewfinder. Since the MX is one of these new-fangled open > aperture reading metered bodies, that info is helpful, just in case I don't > have > time to check the dof preview. > > And, to answer Shel's original query, on a manual focus, mechanical camera, > with > no metering options, the meter and exposure info is all I need or want in the > viewfinder. Anything else (what else could there be?) would be superfluous > and > annoying. > > regards, > frank > > regards > > �ukasz Kacperczyk wrote: > >> Your post is really puzzling to me, for I see the f-stop very clearly. I'm >> curious if anybody else has this problem. >> Lukasz >> > > - -- > "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist > fears it is true." -J. Robert > Oppenheimer > - - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
