I was interested in the Bob Monaghan page because it discussed something I
had tried - using a 'sportsfinder.' While he talks Bronica, I found the old
Mamiya Press stuff more useable and affordable (esp. as I have a Press
outfit). The best viewer is the one for the 65mm wide angle - it's like a
little TV and is extremely bright with good 'eye relief'. It is 'not quite'
big enough for a 28mm showing, at a guess, 90%, but very useable and
usually quite cheap. The viewers for the 50 and 75mm lenses are not so
useable and very much more expensive. There are often wire frame Mamiya
Press viewers advertised on eBay but they tend to be for the standard and
short tele lens objectives - i.e. 90/150 on 6x7 - and so not so useful for
wide angle zone focussing.
Either way, an OM with an auxilliary viewfinder looks deadly!
Andrew
>Hi Richard:
>
>You write:
>
><< you might find this URL to be funny:
>http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/third/mlu.html
>It's discussing the superiority of the OM-1 vs.. the OM-4Ti in lens
>testing. >>
>
>It is nice that there is a discussion board which follows these
>typically student produced web pages. I'm more comfortable obtaining
>fact then generating and recycling "spin" and conventional wisdom (or is
>it, at worst, ignorance?). Boy, was that board filled with it. In
>pursuit of truth, one of our disciples spoke:
>
>*********************
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000
>From: Tom Trottier TomATrottier@xxxxxxxx
>To: rmonagha@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/third/mlu.html
>
>Hey, the OM-4 has mirror lockup & aperture prefire. And I believe us
>some other cameras also have this feature that works with the self
>timer. It's
>not just the mere lock up and the shutter that cause problems with
>vibration. It's also the automatic diaphragm shutting down the causes
>problems.
>There's been quite a discussion in the Olympus list, and Gary Reese has
>found that the OM 4, using the self timer, is sharper than the OM1 using
>
>mirror lock up.
>
>Tom
>-------------------------
>Tom Trottier, Abadax IT Consulting
>400 Slater St. Suite 415, Ottawa ON Canada K1R 7S7
>__o TomATrottier@xxxxxxxx TomTrottier@xxxxxxxxxxx ICQ:57647974
>*********************
>
>Unfortunately, no one in the following postings picked up on the
>significance of vibrations from the automatic diaphragm subsystem. Pity
>them, because we possess the tools and knowledge to get technically
>superior shots (when we need them), while they play with their mirror
>lockups.
>
>Gary Reese
>Las Vegas, NV
>
>
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