PS - Rollies with the leather focusing hoods and close up lens sets worked
pretty damn well.
On Apr 18, 2016 4:59 PM, "Rick Beckrich" <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Well said, Sir Moose.
> However, I was thinking of the magnifying eyepiece that easily replaced
the prism on my Nikon F... Yea verily l misspoke, "waist level."
> Mea culpa
>
> On Apr 18, 2016 4:47 PM, "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/18/2016 6:24 AM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> >>
> >> BIG SCORE! Congrats.
> >>
> >> (I think there are times when we all miss those old waist level
> >> viewfinders... Or "ground level" in this case.)
> >
> >
> > Some of us with tilt or fully articulated LCDs on mirrorless bodies
don't miss them at all.
> >
> > This small flower (maybe 1/2") was facing horizontally almost on the
ground, so I flipped the screen to an angle, neither H nor V, where I could
see while the camera was pointed directly at the subject. <
http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=SFBayArea/Walks_With_Margaret/Tilden_Park&image=_B003640croofm.jpg>
> >
> > With later bodies, one may go further, using a smartphone or tablet as
remote screen and controller. Here is an iPad acting as remote screen and
controller for an upside down camera. <
http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=14126>
> >
> > I found the VF on the Praktiflex FX to be almost useless. The larger
Rolleicord IV was usable, esp. after I added a Fresnel screen. OTOH, levels
of magnitude poorer than the LCDs on contemporary cameras.
> >
> > L. C. D. Moose
> >
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> > What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
> >
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