Waist level viewing is a favorite of mine ... I learned photography
with a Rolleiflex TLR and always miss the finder. The articulated LCD
finder of the Sony DSC-R1 was one of the reasons why I bought it ...
it handles waist level point of view brilliantly.
You might want to look into the Zigview finder accessory:
http://www.zigview.co.uk/
Godfrey
On Apr 30, 2006, at 1:40 PM, 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
