Originally posted by weijen I would love a manual focus DSLR with a proper aperture sensor, and a split focus screen with a nice, huge prism.
Forget all those funky exposure and metering modes. All I need is the shutter speed dial, and an A mode. Oh, and I can also live without the LCD screen.
I wonder, am I alone?
No, you're surely not alone. This weekend I took my trusty old K1000 for a spin. It was a long time since I last did that and boy does the photography differ from fully automatic shooting. It forces the user to take much more care in each and every picture. I need to do that to "reset" every once in a while. And it is surely
NOT the same as leaving a K-3 or whatever on full manual. It is a completely different experience. Developing the film afterwards made me feel the magic again.
That said, I couldn't help but feel the similarity in the feeling with shooting with my A7r. The A7r has a low FPS and I often mount legacy or off-brand lenses on it, so no autofocus. In that sense I have to put more care in taking the pictures. And the form factor of the camera itself feels similar. Much more similar then to todays DSLR's anyway.