Hi, Tried posting this question on the other site without much success-- Looking for uses, conventional or otherwise that users have found for the various action finders. The more creative the better. Thanks, Marke

-- Marke D. Gilbert (Bohdi137@aol.com), February 27, 2001

Answers

Action finders, I don't know, but an old trick with a waist level finder is to raise the camera above your head and look up into the finder. This gives you a high vantage point for an unusual picture angle, or more usefully, lets you shoot over the heads of the crowd of morons standing in front of you.

-- Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), February 27, 2001.

Action finders are good if you can't get your eye up to the finder due to some other obstruction such as a helmet visor or googles. it allows you to see the whole frame from quite a distance if you routinely photograph in situations when you might be wearing those safety devices.

I don't believe they would be very fun for general shooting. On some Nikon cameras, they preclude the use of all of the metering patterns.

-- Al Smith (smith58@msn.com), February 27, 2001.

I know a lot of people use them when the camera is in an underwater housing. Eye to camera distance is too great otherwise.

-- Anth Plummer (anthplummer@bigpond.com), March 14, 2001.