Fujifilm X-100S with TCL-X100 teleconverter attached @ 50mm equiv. 1/350th sec f/2.8 @ ISO400. Local artist and instructor Josh Hite in Gastown, Vancouver. I enjoy shooting with an optical viewfinder. For those who don’t get it even after trying it, they will never get it I suppose. It’s like trying to convince someone to ride a fixed-gear single speed bike, or drive a manual transmission on a car. Yes it’s more work and more limiting, but through the limits we become better photographers, bike riders, and drivers. Sometimes, there’s even advantages to the limits. For an optical viewfinder (OVF), we don’t get exact frame lines of the final image, we don’t get to see depth of field or exposure; but we gain something that a digital screen doesn’t give us: the real world!! Yes we get to see the world the way our eyes see it (but through a singular optical finder). When I use an OVF I find that I learn to imagine the shot which helps me visualize the final product before I shoot with it.
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