Intimate details on use and preference of RF cameras.

[Ko.Fe.]

Recently I made important (personal) discovery why I'm RF oriented.
It is related to the size of my ... nose!

Here is the picture (on the left 🙂) of me holding small Agfa Sensor RF.

Shnobel Beast and Snow Belle.

I recently purchased it as compact alternative to my full sized film RF cameras. But something wasn't right. After looking at the scan today I realized what strap and strap mount are into my nose! While M4-2 is gently kissing my cheek and my nose is free to breathe.

I went further and checked where my shnobel is with DSLRs. With small DSLR, I have to kind of stretch it, to be able to keep my nose outside. But with bigger DSLR it is squeezed. I know I have to hold my breath while taking masterpeace on modern digital FF DSLR, but it doesn't feel right after sometime and rear big screen, sorry for intimate detail, is, well, not so clean as I need, want it to be...

So, owning digital expensive RF camera might be related not to snoberry after all, but due to shnobelly! 🙂

 

[FrankS]

Unfortunately, I'm left eye dominant.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Unfortunately, I'm left eye dominant.

Graflex Speed Graphic has RF for the left eye, if I remember it right. But it is too big alternative.

I think, this is why some might prefer TLR, look down, ground glass cameras. And rear screen at digital also works!

 

[BLKRCAT]

slr, left eye. rangefinder right eye. i use both

 

[FrankS]

ambi-oculous?

 

[Ronald M]

Left eye dom here and use DSLR and RF over the one left eye. Squeeze the nose as required.

 

[btgc]

So big DSLRs should have concave for nose. Agreed. Instead they put on back shiny screen which gets in a way and collects sweat from nose.

 

[joe bosak]

I just use whatever camera, nose pressing wherever....

 

[Scapevision]

I avoid the issue by using a Waist Level Finder

 

[Ko.Fe.]

So big DSLRs should have concave for nose. Agreed. Instead they put on back shiny screen which gets in a way and collects sweat from nose.

Yep. With little screen of Canon 5D it wasn't a problem for me. But new to me MKII much larger screen looks gross due to details you have described. And I have only used it in mild temperatures for now. Trying to imagine what will happened on hot and stincky summer day. 😕 😱

 

[Dante_Stella]

Unfortunately, I'm left eye dominant.

I am too, and if my nose were any bigger, I'd need a recess in film backs and LCD screens. "Honey, is that a 120 film end reminder clip impression on your face?!"

Dante

 

[Ken Ford]

ambi-oculous?

I think they make movies about that in Sweden.

 

[CMur12]

slr, left eye. rangefinder right eye. i use both

I'm left-eyed with everything. In my case, it has kept me from using modern SLRs (from 35mm AF on) because of the controls grouped just to the right of the finder. (I might note that I also wear glasses.)

At any rate, being left-eye dominant and wearing glasses has had everything to do with what sort of camera I choose and it has made waist-level finders especially attractive.

- Murray

 

[Doug]

Left eye --> right brain --> artistic for sure! 🙂

 

[Jan Pedersen]

Poor vision on my right eye since a virus left a scar on the cornea when i was eighteen.
All left eye shooting and a constant smeared display from my nose grease but i am happy to still have vision enough on my left eye to photograph.

 

[FrankS]

Left eye --> right brain --> artistic for sure! 🙂

Actually, the retina of each eye is split in half, with the right side (of each eye) connected to the left visual brain centre via optic nerve, and the left side (of each eye) connected to the right visual brain centre.

(Read this in the voice of Cliff Claven from the TV show Cheers.)

 

[bmattock]

My nose vanishes when I take photographs.

 

[michaelwj]

May be Crazy but...

It's the Sound, the soft Purr
the Click of the Shutter
the bounce of the meter arms entwined
that I find Intimate and Seductive on my M5
😀

I get KoFe nose with the M5, I just can't comfortably use it!

KoFe nose: when the relationship between the VF window and the edge of the camera make it uncomfortable for ones nose.

 

[CSG123]

I love rangefinders and have been using them since my first, a Yashica J, back in high school (1966-68). I've always shot left eye as I'm also left eye dominant, a lefty in most things, and have a nose which has increased in size as I've gotten older. I simply adjusted my head to fit behind the camera. Same as SLRs and every camera with a viewfinder I've ever used. You work with what you have. I do use my right eye on occasion but it feels weird.

 

[Doug]

Actually, the retina of each eye is split in half, with the right side (of each eye) connected to the left visual brain centre via optic nerve, and the left side (of each eye) connected to the right visual brain centre.

(Read this in the voice of Cliff Claven from the TV show Cheers.)

Wild... Thanks, Frank!