Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: KevinA on April 01, 2009, 04:54:33 am
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I took a photography student on a heli trip today, it was a favour for a friend. She brought along a sub FF camera and was busy snapping through the plexi, I had the door open. On the way back we made a slight detour to fly over her house, I got her tp pass me her camera so I could shoot a few for her. How the hell do you take pictures with a viewfinder small like that, I felt like a gynecologist looking for a lost wedding ring.
Kevin.
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I felt like a gynecologist looking for a lost wedding ring.
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You can fly a helicopter AND take pictures at the same time?!? Is that safe?
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How the hell do you take pictures with a viewfinder small like that
By concentrating on taking pictures instead of gear attributes
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You can fly a helicopter AND take pictures at the same time?!? Is that safe?
Um no, the pilot does driving I take the pictures.
Kevin.
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"I felt like a gynecologist looking for a lost wedding ring."
Just made my day boy.... It must be all that fresh air up there in Sunny Norfolk... what a phrase...!
S
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It is a novel way to let people know you have a FF camera. Perhaps more people in Norfolk need to know. Does the pilot do sky writing?
Steve
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Ya, I ask myself that same questions every time I pull out my 8x10 to shoot landscapes. Why do those people spent $8k to look through such a tiny viewfinder.
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For format snobbery, my friend, you've certainly come to the right place. All of us are highly self-assured full-frame or larger shooters, you'll find not a single one of us shoots with a crop-frame DSLR. And you'd certainly expect such, since this is a place for people who produce excellent photographic work, and all of us have many spectacular FF images in the gallery, and we all know no one with a crop-format DSLR can produce anything worthwhile. You're among friends here.
But all kidding aside, what sub FF camera were you using? That's quite a broad grouping of different viewfinder sizes to be pigeonholing into one category... I find that, though I love the gigantic FF viewfinder of my OM film cameras (larger and brighter than any FF DSLR, as well), I find the tiny viewfinder on my old E-330 (2x crop) to be quite usable and the much larger (but still not FF) viewfinder of my Pentax K20D (second largest in the class, after D300) to be just the right size for most things. Easily large enough to manually focus and pick out minor details of the landscape, but small enough that you don't have to scan too much with your eyes, which can be important in some situations.
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Easily large enough to manually focus and pick out minor details of the landscape, but small enough that you don't have to scan too much with your eyes, which can be important in some situations.
Thats a good point, and why Leica introduced different magnification 'M' rangefinders, so people could buy a camera that suited their eyesight or who didn't want to scan around the edges of the viewfinder to see what was in shot. And in terms of coverage within that magnification I think given that very few cameras in the history of SLR's have had 100% viewfinders it is a testament that you just get on and do the job with what you have. And of course, not all DSLR's have 100% viewfinders, some, like the Canon 5D MkII have a disappointing 98% coverage, while some others, like the Olympus E3 have a 100% coverage.
Steve