Ulanzi’s Waist-Level Viewfinder Brings a Retro Experience to Modern Cameras Ulanzi has unveiled the VF01 Waist-Level Viewfinder, a compact accessory designed to bring classic shooting ergonomics to modern mirrorless and compact cameras. [Read More]

This Awesome DIY Digital Camera Has a Waist-Level Viewfinder Photographer Malcolm Wilson, who recently converted a broken film camera into an infrared digital point-and-shoot, is back with another awesome camera build. This time, Wilson combined a Mamiya C220 TLR viewfinder, Raspberry Pi, and Sony image sensor to create a waist-level viewfinder digital camera. [Read More]

Conclusion:
Modern cameras may have flip-out screens, but there’s something different about composing from the waist.

It’s quieter. More mindful. And surprisingly easy to DIY.

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A photo of yellow California poppies lining a sidewalk with a cement and iron fence behind. The flowers in focus are weighted on the right side of the frame.

The same photo of yellow poppies along a sidewalk seen through the waist level view finder of a film camera.

Daydreaming of Summer Sidewalk Views

📷: Praktica FX2
🎞: Kodak Ektar 100

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Blue Hour in LA

Yashica D w/ Portra 400

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The Rockies / Pentax 6x7 / Ilford FP4+

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