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Post by doubs43 on Mar 9, 2007 17:31:19 GMT -5
Me...... that's who! Tomorrow I'm doing a digital wedding shoot and have another scheduled for June. There are pictures I take that would be better served by a TLR because the lower viewpoint is important and getting a floor shot with an eye-level camera is not easy. The best I can do with my Pentax or Fuji digital SLR is to use the viewing screen rather than the prism. A digital TLR would be better..... especially with an 18~50mm zoom lens. Imagine; a TLR with a zoom lens.  Walker |
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Post by kiev4a on Mar 9, 2007 17:42:45 GMT -5
It would take a lot of weddings to pay for a digital TLR--if there were any digital TLRs to buy. As sensor cost come down there probably will be more medium format digitals available but I suspect they will be SLRs rather than TLRs. Of course you can get waist level finders for medium format SLRs.
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Post by doubs43 on Mar 9, 2007 18:12:26 GMT -5
It would take a lot of weddings to pay for a digital TLR--if there were any digital TLRs to buy. As sensor cost come down there probably will be more medium format digitals available but I suspect they will be SLRs rather than TLRs. Of course you can get waist level finders for medium format SLRs. Wayne, I don't think it would have to be medium format as my 6MB Pentax *ist-DS gives a 41 inch image and an 8~10 MB TLR could be relatively small. I guess I should have said that in my original post. Walker |
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Post by GeneW on Mar 9, 2007 23:08:33 GMT -5
Me...... that's who! Tomorrow I'm doing a digital wedding shoot and have another scheduled for June. There are pictures I take that would be better served by a TLR because the lower viewpoint is important and getting a floor shot with an eye-level camera is not easy. The best I can do with my Pentax or Fuji digital SLR is to use the viewing screen rather than the prism. A digital TLR would be better..... especially with an 18~50mm zoom lens. Imagine; a TLR with a zoom lens. Walker I can't find the announcement I read, but I think that at least one of the new Olympus DSLR's, the E-410, E-510, or E-1 successor, has not only 'live preview' but an articulated LCD screen. Flipped out, it would be very like using a digital TLR in the sense of looking down at the screen and being able to hold it in low positions. Better in some ways, because the image would not be reversed -- and you'd be looking right through the lens but on the LCD rather than prism finder. I'd like to get my hands on a demo unit once they hit the stores, just to satisfy my curiosity. Gene |
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Post by doubs43 on Mar 10, 2007 0:27:12 GMT -5
Gene, that sounds like a good alternative. My Fuji S602Z works much the same way but the screen is fixed. I plan on using it some at the wedding tomorrow as it gives a softer image than the Pentax and will suit a woman's vanity better.
Walker
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Post by bobm on Mar 10, 2007 6:31:09 GMT -5
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Post by jennyandernie on Mar 10, 2007 11:29:43 GMT -5
We have an attachment called a Zigview which slides on to the eyecup and gived an EVF image. It can be rotated to use the camera at lowlevels, waist level or even overhead. I was out using it today to shoot candid photos in a local market and flower shots in a park. You can shoot from the waist as with a TLR and so do not draw as much attention to yourself; also you can shoot very low down without having to get on to the ground. At my age it's not the getting down it's the getting back up that's a problem. Here it is on the Canon 1Ds MkII  Ernie |
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Post by GeneW on Mar 10, 2007 11:42:22 GMT -5
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Post by mickeyobe on Mar 10, 2007 12:58:59 GMT -5
Ernie,
I have just returned from the Zigview site.
At 306 pounds I think I shall lie on the ground and hope some kindly passerby will help me up if I moan load enough.
Mickey
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Post by jennyandernie on Mar 10, 2007 13:55:29 GMT -5
It was not as expensive as that. There is more than one model and some of them have a remote shutter release and a motion sensor shutter; ideal for wildlife shots and night shots. Ours cost us about £100 and it came with two adaptors; one for Canon and one for Nikon. I have just looked on the net and found someone selling it for £89.99. www.warehouseexpress.co.uk/?photo/zigview/zigview.html |
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