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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Canon 10s Vs Nikon N90, Which one?
- In-Reply-To: tse@ra.nrl.navy.mil's message of Fri, 25 Dec 1992 17:30:47 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec24.205338.11007@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <BzssK3.Kp6@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 12:07:32
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- In article <BztsnC.3L7@ra.nrl.navy.mil> tse@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Anthony Tse) writes:
-
- You and the other guy who posted something about needing focusing
- aid because Nikon user can use MF lens obviousely never owned a
- fast lens and used it for a portrait type tight head shot with the lens
- wide open. The split screen doesn't work when you try to use it one
- someone's eye. With a horizontal split screen, you need somthing
- vertical to split, there isn't anything vertical in a person's eyes.
-
- I'm the other guy, and I use a Spiratone 135/1.8 for this kind of
- shooting at chess tournaments. The horizontal split screen is not
- that bad. For one thing, you can always tilt the camera when you
- focus. For another, a lot of such portraits are vertical shots.
- There's also always the microprism collar, which while less precise is
- quicker and works with most textured subjects. However, if Nikon
- offered a diagonal split screen with a microrprism collar (I've seen
- these on some other cameras), I'd probably buy one.
-
- The electronic rangefinder in the 8008 is particularly a pain in
- the neck, by the way, since it is an LCD at the bottom of the
- finder screen and it's difficult to look at both the LCD and
- the subject (normally in the center of the screen) at the same
- time. If it was a pair of different-colored LED's, as the F4 uses,
- you could look at the subject while your peripheral vision
- let you notice which LED was lit.
-