{"id":653,"date":"2007-07-26T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T15:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/seeing-through-vertical-viewfinders\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T10:20:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T15:20:56","slug":"seeing-through-vertical-viewfinders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/seeing-through-vertical-viewfinders\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing through vertical viewfinders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>I picked up an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cameraquest.com\/olypenf.htm\" title=\"More info from CameraQuest\">Olympus Pen FT<\/a> 35mm SLR at the end of February [2007]. Because it&#8217;s half frame, the viewfinder is vertical rather than horizontal, and I was really curious to see if it would  affect how I see through it. I&#8217;ve been using it as my primary normal-lensed camera for a few months now, and&mdash;big shock&mdash;it did.<\/p>\n<p>The camera did remind me of how much I don&#8217;t like the normal 3:2 aspect ratio of a normal 35mm frame. For me it&#8217;s usually in an uninspiring wasteland, being too long for square or 4:5 (which I&#8217;ve grown to <i>really<\/i> like) and too short for a panorama.<\/p>\n<p>Past that, it&#8217;s been an interesting experience. The corners of the viewfinder are rounded, which seems like a small thing, but it really affects my mindset when I&#8217;m shooting. It reminds me of the prints that were popular when I was a kid, and it gives me a feeling of temporal ambiguity by association.<\/p>\n<p>I still find myself taking just about as many horizontal shots as I used to, but now it&#8217;s much more deliberate, and it feels like that&#8217;s spilled over into normal viewfinder shooting as well. Seems like one of those things that makes me see better, even if I don&#8217;t use it all the time. I highly recommend the vertical viewfinder experience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up an Olympus Pen FT 35mm SLR at the end of February [2007]. Because it&#8217;s half frame, the viewfinder is vertical rather than horizontal, and I was really curious to see if it would affect how I see through it. I&#8217;ve been using it as my primary normal-lensed camera for a few months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1267,1569,1835,1840],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artmaking","tag-olympus-pen-ft","tag-seeing","tag-vertical-composition","tag-viewfinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->