{"id":719,"date":"2010-01-09T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T08:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=719"},"modified":"2011-02-22T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T00:35:44","slug":"oh-those-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Oh, those Russians."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Lubitel 2 is an interesting camera, it certainly makes you think about composing your pictures.\u00a0 Primarily because you can’t.\u00a0 It without a doubt has the worst viewfinder I have ever encountered.\u00a0 Others have described it as tunnel vision, I would describe it as frustrating.\u00a0 It’s one thing to have everything reversed as with all TLR cameras but moving the camera can also make the image disappear entirely if you aren’t absolutely directly aligned.\u00a0 There are two focus aids though.\u00a0 One is that the finder can be configured as an eye level frame as seen in the picture of the camera and the other is the small magnifying element that can be flipped out to assist in focusing.\u00a0 While I’m on the subject of focusing, it also is unique.\u00a0 The image is not actually formed on a ground glass but is seen directly from a lens element that has\u00a0 a darkened spot in the center.\u00a0 It is very difficult to focus and requires the use of this magnifying loupe to ensure accuracy.<\/p>\n

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The Lubitel 2 is an interesting camera, it certainly makes you think about composing your pictures.\u00a0 Primarily because you can’t.\u00a0 It without a doubt has the worst viewfinder I have ever encountered.\u00a0 Others have described it as tunnel vision, I would describe it as frustrating.\u00a0 It’s one thing to have everything reversed as with all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[19,64,111,364],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","tag-camera","tag-film","tag-lubitel","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}