Doesn’t anybody at Nikon wear glasses?
August 25th, 2007
Seriously? Who builds a pro camera (D3) with an eye relief of 18mm? Even their new pro-sumer (D300) camera only has 19.5mm of eye relief. Canon isn’t much better with 20mm for the new 1Dspq43 Mark IIIIXV, but at least the 40D gets 22mm. (Utterly Off-topic Obervation: Someone in the Canon product-naming department must have worked for the Royal Ordnance Ordinance Factory in a previous life.
I don’t want any of these pieces of junk for myself, but I feel for my oppressed, be-spectacled, digital shooting brothers and sisters. Unite! Unite! Stand up for rights!
August 25th, 2007
But they got diopter adjustment!
August 25th, 2007
But diopter adjustment doesn’t adjust for astigmatism!
Neither does it typically go down below about minus 3. And even if it did, can you imagine what it is like not being able to see anything, like even where you are about to step, once you’ve taken the camera away from your face.
With the way that viewfinders are designed anybody would think that the seeing part of photography was incidental.
August 25th, 2007
PS - Matt, it is Ordnance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ordnance
As far as I know there was never a Royal law-making factory :-)
August 25th, 2007
If I find a wikipedia entry for a Royal law-making factory, will you allow it to stand?
“And even if it did, can you imagine what it is like not being able to see anything, like even where you are about to step, once you’ve taken the camera away from your face.”
I’ve never understood how people who depend on glasses can photograph with their glasses off. How can I photograph if the only way I can see is through the camera?
August 25th, 2007
In Soviet Russia, camera sees through you!
August 26th, 2007
I have met a guy in my usual camera shop - one of these Leica gurus who owns a copy of each lens Leica has ever produced… and I was utterly amazed to find out, he has an eye correction of 9 !!! He was obviously wearing contact lenses, as, in his own words “without them he wouldn’t be able to find the door”… Maybe one day, the astigmatism could be electronically corrected in the VF by the camera software, who knows… I also have to cope with the glasses and BTW this is why I find the ZI to be the best RF camera for my needs…
A quick question to Matt - I am leaving for a 10 day holiday, and I want to experiment a bit with the silver films, I am taking Ilford Delta 3200,100, HP5+,FP4+, PAN-F and Acros - what is my best bet to get good negs for scanning: shoot at half box speed and ask for shorter dev time in the lab, or shoot everything as is and develop normally ?
August 26th, 2007
Marek, I’d probably shoot everything but the 3200 at box speed unless you have a really good relationship with your lab, and even at that, I’m not sure I’d try something new on a trip. The 3200, from my very limited experience, seems to work best at 1600.
The one time I looked through the ZI, I was impressed. Perhaps if/when my hexars die.
“camera see through you”
Indeed, but in the glorious workers paradise, no one is nearsighted or has astigmatism or even bad breath, so it doesn’t matter how little eye relief the camera has.
August 26th, 2007
Something Stalinesque about a law making factory, don’t you think? Hearty types beating laws out of solid metal.
As for viewfinders - Zeiss Ikon wins. There are aspects of the camera that I’m less fond of, but the viewfinder means that it is my (film) camera of choice.
September 6th, 2007
[…] ISSR aside, the A700 looks like a fine camera, and unlike the recent Nikon and Canon offerings, the eye-relief doesn’t appear to entirely suck, although it’s a little unclear what 25mm without the frame and 21 mm with the frame means. Is this a removable eyepiece frame? In any event, with one of those fancy Zeiss 16-80 zooms, this would probably be nice piece of kit. Posted by matt Filed in Cameras […]