Ken Norton <image66@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>Overall, I am not a fan of rangefinders. I work much better in a WYSIWYG
>environment. Rangefinders are good in wedding work for seeing people blink
>during the exposures, but that is about it for me. An SLR is "home" to me.
I had not thought I would get a rangefinder. The Mamiya 6 I got feels like a
large 35mm SLR; in fact it is smaller than the Canon EOS 1n! The weight is
about the same, though. The grip area is thinner than the EOS, which makes the
camera easier to hold even for me with small hands.
It is not a WYSIWYG, but you get a bright-enough viewfinder in which to focus.
I ruined one entire roll of 12 by not removing a lens cap, which rarely happens
with an SLR!
The drawback I see compared to the Mamiya 645 or other medium-format SLRs is a
fact that a Polaroid back is very expensive because it requires fiber optics to
adjust the image on the Polaroid film. This requirement for fiber optics on the
Polaroid back is the same with 35mm SLRs including the OM cameras.
BTW, I have found two stores, Le Camera in New Jersey and Abbey Camera in
Philly, Baltimore, and D.C. sell the Polaroid back for the OM-4 at prices less
than the B&H price.
Tomoko Yamamoto
mailto:tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.charm.net/~tomokoy/
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