This is particularly useful for action shots, facilitated among other things by having all the information in the viewfinder (you don’t need to move the camera away from the face to check the shutter speed dial and the aperture). Classic among the classic, completely mechanical, it is equipped with a viewfinder with a 95% coverage with an almost unitary magnification (0.97), which means that what that we see in the viewfinder is almost identical in size to what we can see with the other eye! In this case the binocular vision is easy, thanks also to the compactness of the camera, one of the smaller SLR (all the Pentax M cameras are very small SLR). The Pentax MX, the next camera, deserves a different speech. I do not care about carefully reading the shutter speed: if the needle is horizontal I’m sure to have a time of at least 1/30 second or faster.Ĭredits: tiestillo, risbot & thewallflower It is the opposite sequence respect to the Pentax and it is also my preference, because I like to concentrate on the composition and then quickly check the exposure meter. In this case it is more spontaneous framing and then checking the exposure meter. It is easier to read than LEDs in a bright day, and a bit more difficult in low light conditions. The exposure meter shows, like in the previous camera, the shutter times, thanks to a moving needle placed on the right side. However, this camera has a slightly lower magnification (0,87), and this makes the binocular vision slightly more difficult and less spontaneous, also hampered by larger size of the camera (if you are framing with the right eye, the left one visual is in part obstructed by the camera body). About focusing, the same considerations apply here. It has the same focus system (not interchangeable) of the Pentax ME Super. Let us now examine a quite similar viewfinder, that of my beloved Canon AV-1, a full shutter priority mode camera. This solution is one of the best for street photography, even I prefer (for habit) the opposite sequence.Ĭredits: edmundrt, raapstelenstamppot, laluce & icomewhenieatcaponata Finally, notice that, in the western world we are used to read from left to right, so with this camera there will be spontaneous to read the meter before framing. Second: the use of these focusing aids lead often, and almost always unconsciously, to put the main subject in the center of the photo. This is a standard choice for many SLRs, with two drawbacks: with dim aperture (as using some telephoto lenses) the image will become black in the center. The non-interchangeable focus screen has in its center the classic micro prism and split-image stigmometer. Just give it a quick look at the exposure meter before framing, then you can forget it (unless you are shooting in manual mode), concentrating to framing only. The exposure meter with LEDs, located on the left side, is perfect for camera designed to be used mainly in aperture priority the green LEDs indicate safe times, the yellow LEDs those equal or slower than 1/30s (camera shake risk), the red ones indicated complete underexposure or overexposure. In fact framing with both eyes open is very important in street photography! This means that the image in the viewfinder has almost the same size of the real image that you can see with the other eye, that you can use to pre-visualize the scene (for example to recognize and prevent an intrusion in the frame, or to better understand what is going to happen). Very bright, it has a coverage of 92% and a magnification of 0.95 (these specifications are always calculated for a standard lens with a focal length 50mm focusing at infinity). The first viewfinder analysed in this article is that of my Pentax ME Super.
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