Indeed. At the moment I'm struggling with Lomography's latest triumph, the
Belair 6x12 interchangeable lens folder. It's a pack of dogs.
'Difficulties' include, soft, plastic lenses (19mm and 29mm equiv,; a
tendency to snap open when you don't want it to and to refuse when you do
(hopeless catch design); viewfinders that are so designed that I have to look
through them with my reading glasses; serious parallax error from the finders
(it focusses to 1 metre)); aperture priority with two apertures (f8 & f16);
auto shutter without override - fiddling the ISO dial is the only way; loose
winding - no film tensioning; a tendency to overexpose by about half a stop.
I'm enjoying the challenge immensely. Images will be posted - when I get it
right.
Andrew (no soft landscapes) Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.soultheft.com
Author/Publisher: The SLR Compendium - http://www.blurb.com/books/3732813
On 06/02/2013, at 12:27 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> I don't think any product is necessarily a total dog. It's what you do with
> it that matters. All technology has its limits, its strengths and its
> weaknesses. If you pay attention, you know where and what they are, and you
> compensate accordingly.
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