Cooter, I just want a larger viewfinder. I could care less about the analogue retro aspect. If the VF is not great, I will pass.
Same for me. I'd rather use a camera with fewer unwanted features but that's not a critical need. The viewfinder is critical.
Hey T and Wildlight (is that your name Wild Light cause that's kind of cool, though I would have picked Flash Light, but still Wild Light is ok)
It's not the size of the viewfinder, it's that crazy ground plastic they use, to make everything look mostly in focus.
I know you've done this but at night, shoot a street sign to look out of focus. You know where you can tell it's a sign but can't read it.
Through the lens you
can read it, when you shoot it even if you stop down further than wide open, it will be blurred like crazy.
You have to go like 2 stops down to get the same effect you see in the ground plastic.
That's why manual focus is a bitch on these cameras.
Canon did make a replacement ground plastic that wouldn't do that for their earlier 1ds series, but they don't make it anymore. It was a little darker but it worked and you could focus.
But hey, used digital backs are falling off the trees and used Contax are everywhere so they're is an answer for a real analog man like Wild Light.
The contax screen may be small (unless you use the wl finder) but it's bone accurate.
Personally I don't have any faith in any of these little cameras anymore. I dig my mft 43 cameras and thought the Sony had promise until seeing those images on dee pee review and whoa, never seen so much painterly effect since the old kill the noise in a phase back software, circa 2003. If those are representative of the new Sony, it looks like Van Gough took up photography.
But the Leica S has a big viewfinder that works and a damn good ccd sensor, though it cost more than a J.P. Morgan SEC fine. Same with the Pentax 645, and it just cost the price of a parking ticket in Manhattan.
BC
