I'm afraid I might belong to the TTL camp after all
Frankly I don't know how to write about this without going to kiloword-long rambles. Feel free to ignore if you don't like rambles. Especially when this all boils down to me not having enough M-time after a busy January. Maybe I'll try to contain myself to the RF / EVF / OVF discussion for now.
The OVF of a rangefinder is not as bright as the EVFs, the mirror setup inside eats considerably more light than I anticipated. Not a dealbreaker but I like bright.
The OVF offers a zero-lag view, this I kinda appreciate. I notice I can time my shots with absolute ease.
But I do love the WYSIWYG nature of an EVF. No more picture review or anything like that. (Although I should be reviewing -- many of the casual people shots end up with the subject with eyes closed!) I guess the modernest EVF cameras with 100 Hz are better in this regard. I don't mind the 60 Hz panels outside this timing issue, which I found to be an issue after going to OVF.
Maybe it's just the OVF of M240 that I don't really like. If I stand straight and look through the VF, the 35 framelines are good. When I'm crouching somewhere and focusing at infinity, it's not as easy to see the lines. If I ever got 28 mm lenses, I should probably go for an external VF. I hear the M10's longer eye relief distance would be a thing that helped me with my problem but my finances absolutely forbid me to even think about it.
The RF is absolutely the best wrt manual focusing (well maybe some clever (Fujifilm) solutions with their EVF cameras are on-par), especially when you go wide you don't want to be focusing those lenses manually if you don't have a rangefinder.
But there are plenty of inherent issues: long MFDs feel a hindrance (of course it should actually just fuel your creativity as you're given a rather trivial constraint) and the promise of "seeing outside the frame" doesn't fill unless you shoot 50mm or longer. I also value the fact that I can preview the effects of flares and preview the effects of DOF before firing the shutter. The predefined sets of framelines also make me avoid the "nonstandard" FLs even if there would be so many exciting options. I guess I'm not the most adventurous kind -- another sign I may not "get the Leica".
Yeah I'm a d-bag for fully knowing that I should take my issues with the camera to the streets. You know, use it more and collect actual problems to complain about. I get (I guess most people with GAS) these issues with my current gear when I'm not shooting. Shoot more, work out the kinks.
We had a gorgeous January but after that it's devolved into a typical winter bs -- gray skies and things like that. So I haven't been out much with the camera and of course that's the recipe for getting thoughts like these. I'm still aiming to keep my promise I made to myself about keeping the system for a year and shooting at least 10k frames before making any decisions. Me starting to plan those decisions 3 months into "the challenge" is sadly nothing new to me.
BTW it was probably the marvelous featured thread on Pentax images that probably was the last confirmation that I kind of like the TTL.
Frankly I don't know how to write about this without going to kiloword-long rambles. Feel free to ignore if you don't like rambles. Especially when this all boils down to me not having enough M-time after a busy January. Maybe I'll try to contain myself to the RF / EVF / OVF discussion for now.
The OVF of a rangefinder is not as bright as the EVFs, the mirror setup inside eats considerably more light than I anticipated. Not a dealbreaker but I like bright.
The OVF offers a zero-lag view, this I kinda appreciate. I notice I can time my shots with absolute ease.
But I do love the WYSIWYG nature of an EVF. No more picture review or anything like that. (Although I should be reviewing -- many of the casual people shots end up with the subject with eyes closed!) I guess the modernest EVF cameras with 100 Hz are better in this regard. I don't mind the 60 Hz panels outside this timing issue, which I found to be an issue after going to OVF.
Maybe it's just the OVF of M240 that I don't really like. If I stand straight and look through the VF, the 35 framelines are good. When I'm crouching somewhere and focusing at infinity, it's not as easy to see the lines. If I ever got 28 mm lenses, I should probably go for an external VF. I hear the M10's longer eye relief distance would be a thing that helped me with my problem but my finances absolutely forbid me to even think about it.
The RF is absolutely the best wrt manual focusing (well maybe some clever (Fujifilm) solutions with their EVF cameras are on-par), especially when you go wide you don't want to be focusing those lenses manually if you don't have a rangefinder.
But there are plenty of inherent issues: long MFDs feel a hindrance (of course it should actually just fuel your creativity as you're given a rather trivial constraint) and the promise of "seeing outside the frame" doesn't fill unless you shoot 50mm or longer. I also value the fact that I can preview the effects of flares and preview the effects of DOF before firing the shutter. The predefined sets of framelines also make me avoid the "nonstandard" FLs even if there would be so many exciting options. I guess I'm not the most adventurous kind -- another sign I may not "get the Leica".
Yeah I'm a d-bag for fully knowing that I should take my issues with the camera to the streets. You know, use it more and collect actual problems to complain about. I get (I guess most people with GAS) these issues with my current gear when I'm not shooting. Shoot more, work out the kinks.
We had a gorgeous January but after that it's devolved into a typical winter bs -- gray skies and things like that. So I haven't been out much with the camera and of course that's the recipe for getting thoughts like these. I'm still aiming to keep my promise I made to myself about keeping the system for a year and shooting at least 10k frames before making any decisions. Me starting to plan those decisions 3 months into "the challenge" is sadly nothing new to me.
BTW it was probably the marvelous featured thread on Pentax images that probably was the last confirmation that I kind of like the TTL.