The utter joy of manual focus

[Itsallicanafford]

I attended a Christening over the weekend so decided to fish out some of my old gear a run a roll of film through it.

So after I had cured the stuck shutter on my Canon T90 (by firmly banging it on the table, well the Japanese used to call it 'The Tank') and with just the standard 50mm 1.8 I shot a roll of FP4.

What total and utter joy to compose a shot, focus manually and see the image in sharp focus on a large bright uncluttered focusing screen.

For those of you that have never done it, i would highly recommend it...

When i get the result back i will post one up (so they better be in focus!)

[Itsallicanafford]

Its interesting that Pro full frame digital cameras still have compromised viewfinders. Is there a reason for this? I always sort of assumed that looking through a D4 would be similar to looking through an F5 or F6

[Itsallicanafford]

This guy had the idea

http://petapixel.com/2013/08/16/convert-your-old-f...

Don't think it caught on...