A tiny and personal test of some EVF

Abbazz wrote:

RBIV wrote:

Sjak wrote:

timo wrote:

Fuji X30 (fixed lens): EVF not the biggest but perfectly OK. Never needed to focus manually though.

My experience with manual focus on Fuji has been pretty good, except in very low light (think inside cinema) where noise would be an issue; however, with an SLR, manual focus through OVF would have been even more challenging, as the OVF lacks the option to magnify. In those circumstances, my tool of choise is the rangefinder.

Agree. Leicas in the dark. Still healthy after all these years.

A Rolleiflex with a modern prism finder is also able to see in the dark... I use a Rolleiflex T with an Arax TTL metered prism finder (with the help of a Baier Fototechnik adapter). The huge left-rignt corrected image is brighter than the view through mthe Pentax 6x7 prism finder and almost as good as a Sinar Binocular Reflex Viewer on an F2...

Cheers!

Abbazz

Oh my.  Paper backed roll film.  Yes, I remember. Difficult to get the hang of loading that film on stainless Nikor reels.  And boy they could "POP" in an enlarger without a glass carrier...  But, wow, prints without grain.

I had two roll film cameras for a short time.  A Medalist 6x9 rangefinder using 620, my "giant Leica," I shot a few rolls but... traded it for some 35mm lens I had to have during the days I had no money.  Then a Mamiya C330 but the look down to see forward never worked for me.  That got traded for some other 35mm lens I had to have as well as dampening my desire to somehow acquire a Hasselblad.

So, while I'm a long-time camera shooter, I plead ignorance as regards the equipment you mention.  So long in the profession and still so much I don't know...