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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-22-2016, 04:32 AM
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As others said, it probably will during long exposures. However, this is not the primary reason for using a viewfinder blind.
All (D)SLRs that I know have the light meter somewhere in the pentaprism housing. Therefore, unless you use Live-View, strong backlight through the viewfinder will influence the metering. A classic situation where this comes into effect, is the camera being mounted on a tripod, sun from the back - and there you have an underexposed picture.
Don't believe it? Well, take your camera, turn it on with the lens cap in place. Tip the shutter button and watch the metering. Now take a maglite and direct its beam into the viewfinder....
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-21-2016, 01:30 PM
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I couldn't agree more...
I've seen many creative solutions in the past 40 years, the best obviously being the built in blind as my good old Praktica EE2 (my very first SLR in 1979) had it. Minolta at that time had a smart solution too: You could slide the camera strap through the rear part of the viewfinder cap, so that the cap got permanently attached to the neckholder strap. I waited almost 20 year for Pentax to come up with something like this and indeed, Pentax neckholder straps of the 90ies (e.g. for the Z-1P or the MZ-3) had a small pocket on the strap where the viewfinder cap could be stored.
I wonder why such simple and cheap solutions got dropped in the 21st century....
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