![]() Looking through it I can "feel" the light on the subject, the contrast range, the color, a certain 3 dimensionality (as much a function of lens design as camera design, and yes we all know Contax uses excellent Zeiss glass) that for me is a conduit to creativity. This is the RTS 3's strongest aspect, hence it is a very good camera. ![]() A camera that is neither light-tight (and most of the time we can take this for granted thankfully) nor gives an excellent view through the lens is useless. Getting a good, clear, bright and accurate view of that is an aboslutely ESSENTIAL function of an SLR. All in all it (along with a couple of the lenses I mount on it) is definitely one of the finest pieces of photographic equipment I've ever owned, and certainly gives me the most joy to use.įirst and foremost, an SLR camera is essentially a light-tight box that holds film behind a lens and allows you to look through that lens to see what the film is going to record. That said, this camera sometimes makes me lapse into a state of near-gear worship. The emphasis should never be on equipment unless you truly simply enjoy using cameras and not photographing the world, but really belongs on the vision and point of view and message of the photographer. You know, generally from a philosophical point of view I don't believe in gear-worship which a lot of people succumb to.
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