Godfrey
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With the SL it's all moot because the viewfinder shows me precisely what the exposure will record, but when using the SWC or M with ultra-wide lenses, I simply have to learn how to pre-visualize the field of view. The SWC dedicated finder only shows me about 80% of the lens FoV; the full M viewfinder on the M-D nets about a 28mm FoV and a 16mm lens is vastly more than that.Yes, I already have the frankenfinder and its fine but obviously adds a lot of bulk to the camera and only helps with framing and I still have to focus through the body.
I'm waiting on the EVF to arrive - that should solve both.
When you have what the lens sees deeply ingrained into your mind and gut, you can dispense with a viewfinder entirely except for keeping parallels parallel. This is why when I go on an ultrawide kick, I almost never bring any other lens along.
G
(Of course, with the SWC, if I want precision framing I go with the ground glass back. That generates a different kind of photography ... much slower paced... which in itself is occasionally a nice change.)