i'm still pretty much a newbie to rangefinders, or photography at all for that matter, so i'm interested in hearing other people's experiences with this...
i like the look of wide angle shots, and i shoot in low light a lot. naturally the type of lenses i'm interested in acquiring are fast wide angle primes but since some wide angle lenses require external viewfinders for you to be able to see the entire frame (roughly, at least), then that raises a little concern for me.
sometimes it's already hard enough for me to focus accurately at f/1.4 or f/2 with a 50mm or 35mm lens because of the focusing/recomposing process. but, wouldn't that be an even much bigger issue if say, you're shooting with the 24mm Lux at f/1.4 using an external viewfinder then? do people learn tricks to deal with it, or not use an external finder at all? how do you deal with this situation?
thanks in advance!
i like the look of wide angle shots, and i shoot in low light a lot. naturally the type of lenses i'm interested in acquiring are fast wide angle primes but since some wide angle lenses require external viewfinders for you to be able to see the entire frame (roughly, at least), then that raises a little concern for me.
sometimes it's already hard enough for me to focus accurately at f/1.4 or f/2 with a 50mm or 35mm lens because of the focusing/recomposing process. but, wouldn't that be an even much bigger issue if say, you're shooting with the 24mm Lux at f/1.4 using an external viewfinder then? do people learn tricks to deal with it, or not use an external finder at all? how do you deal with this situation?
thanks in advance!
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