Vic Mortelmans wrote:
Hi pdml!
this question may be off-topic, though this depends on the outcome of
the answers.
Currently I have a number of Pentax camera's (Spotmatic SP, ES,
SuperA) and a number of rangefander camera's (Canonet QL17 GIII, Zorki
4).
None of these camera's offer waist-level viewing.
I'd like to try waist-level viewing, because I know from experience
that a low angle viewpoint gives better pictures (also, I'm quite tall).
These are the possibilities I am considering:
1 Pentax LX with waist-level viewfinder
2 Asahiflex (maybe still with the M39 thread?)
3 flash-shoe waist level viewfinder (Leica has some models), to be
used on SLR or rangefinder camera's
4 TLR camera
5 I know there are some regular SLR camera's and even point-and-shoots
that have additionally a (small) built-in waist-level viewfinder
Do you know about more options?
About the pro's and contra's:
1 contra expensive; pro compatible with my current lens system
2 contra quality of the viewfinder?; pro/contra? is it compatible with
M42 lenses?
3 contra expensive; pro can be used on any of my camera's
4 contra only with 120 film; pro people will be staring at me (or is
this contra?)
5 contra probably low quality viewfinders; I've lost the references...
Can you add to this from your experience?
Groeten,
VIc
1's probably the best option. I shoot this way with my F3 with a lot of
success.
2 means all new and rare lenses, as Asahiflex's are M37 mount except for
one very rare model which had M42.
3 might work, never tried one.
4 is the ebst way to do this on the cheap. Beware parralax error though.
5. Don't even bother.
6. Get a Right angle adaptor for the viewfinder.
-Adam
