Re: The Leica R8 and moving up from Canon

[ted grant <75501.3002@CompuServe.COM>]

Harrison wrote:

<<Ted one thing I used to do a lot when shooting with Nikon was to remove the
prism and hold the camera upside down at arms length over my head and look
through the screen to get well composed "Hail Mary" shots>>

Hi Harrison,

gee I wasn't that bright! :)

I only took it off when I wanted to do the camera right on the ground or side of
swimming pool situations. :)

<< This works MUCH better that holding the camera up with the wide on and aiming
it like a gun and hoping to get a good shot.>>>>>

Yep, I can see that, as I've shot many of the "Hail Mary's" holding Leica's in
the air and shooting blind for years. Gee maybe I should have kept that old "F".
:)

But the original post appeared to say "change the viewfinders" and it appeared
the comment was made into placing different viewfinders and not the screens, so
that was why I asked the question of "why change the viewfinders?" and "for what
purpose?"

I can only assume it was to change the screens and not exchanging to a different
viewfinder. Am I right or would anyone care to comment?

ted