I second you Alan. My camera before moving to an OM-1 was also a
Miranda G (with the T finder). The very hardest thing to give up was
that removable finder and a *real* ground glass focusing screen. I
still miss it 30 years later. If the Nikon F had been a little cheaper
I'd have never moved to the OM-1 and it would have been all about
removable finders. And yes, the vari-magni is a very poor substitute.
Of course, I'd have missed all the other wonderful features of OM's. But
what I hear fron Khen is probably the engineer's desire to make a more
"robust" system which is less subject to external contamination.
Unfortunately, that doesn't fit with my preferred usage of the camera.
Chuck Norcutt
Alan Wood wrote:
> Khen wrote:
>
>
>>No removable finders (thank God)
>
>
> I would love to have seen removable finders in an OM-5.
>
> Before moving to OMs, I used Mirandas (a G and a Laborec), and the one
> feature I really missed was the magnifying finders. The Varimagni Finder is
> a poor substitute for a purpose-built finder with its eyepiece at right
> angles to the film plane. It makes life much easier when the camera is
> close to the ground, or pointing downwards when mounted on a microscope or a
> copying stand.
>
> Alan Wood
> http://www.alanwood.net (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)
>
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