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02-18-2022, 03:26 AM - 4 Likes   #1
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Why I use an SLR - a Ricoh imaging 'short film'...

I hesitate to call it a 'video' or 'promotional product' - even though both of these are true - because it is not just about products - indeed, they come in late, and one of them is a bashed and taped 645Z!

It is the philosophy and the idea of the OVF that is always centre stage with these short films (the branding in the film is Pentax, not Ricoh) that resonates with many of us on this forum. He makes an interesting comment about the difference between mirrorless and using an optical viewfinder that many may agree with.

There's no hard sell.

It's as if Ricoh are saying, "Go ahead, use an EVF, but if you want to experience something purer and more intimate, then come over to us - we've got something you may like..."



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Interesting work from this guy and I particularly like that he prints his own images.
02-18-2022, 03:59 PM   #3
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I now realize I posted a duplicate thread without seeing this...


Even though I often have a rough idea how I'm going to process the image when I shoot it, it does sometimes help to not see the digital rendering on an evf (I also use m43). Other times it's exactly the opposite...
03-05-2022, 07:07 AM   #4
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I like the prism & mirror setup. When I moved to Pentax, all serious brands still used this setup. Now K3iii from 2021 and Leica S3 from 2020 appear to be the last mirror releases. Currently I am quite happy with the route taken by Pentax in recent years. K1++ could become the very last SLR camera ever produced, maybe K3iii is already it.

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