Ideal 75mm viewfinder for the R-D1

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I want to know some suggestions for a 75mm lens on the R-D1
I was thinking in some solutions:

- Nikon DG-2 (2x magnification).
- 100mm external viewfinder.
- Zoom or varifocal finder.
- etc.

Which can be the best and accurated option.

 

[Tuolumne]

Just use the very center of the 50mm frame lines. It works surprisingly well, costs nothing, and doesn't leave any clutter. I do this even with my 90mm lens and have no trouble getting spot-on framing every time.

/T

 

[sonwolf]

The R-D1's conservative frame lines work in your favor with a 75mm lens. When the 50mm frameline setting is used, the edge of the 75mm frame only lies a short distance inside the frameline. Rich Cutler explains how to handle the R-D1 framelines on his excellent website http://www.richcutler.co.uk/r-d1/r-d1_04.htm .

After using my 75mm CV lens extensively, the only framing problem I have had is at close distances shooting portraits. The parallax correction of the 50mm framelines are offset relative to the 75mm frame. I deal with this by shooting a test image and then recentering the frame to compensate.

 

[edhohoho]

I also only use the 50mm framelines, imagining that the 75mm lines are slightly inset. I helped a friend shoot a bunch of portraits for headshots and framing came out really well.

Since I was shooting with the 75 Summilux wide open, I used a Megaperls 1.3x magnifier that really helped with focus accuracy. It also seemed to help with framing as well since the 50mm framlines appear larger and fill up most of the viewfinder, thus it is easier to imagine 75mm framelines and there is less distraction from objects that lie outside the framelines.