It's easier to just learn to shoot your camera with both eyes open one in the viewfinder one outside.
It also makes more sense as the dot sight doesn't really correlate with where your AF points are and it would only really be a rough guess anyway as the point where the sight is calibrated to will change over distance.
Photozack81 wrote:
It's easier to just learn to shoot your camera with both eyes open one in the viewfinder one outside.
It also makes more sense as the dot sight doesn't really correlate with where your AF points are and it would only really be a rough guess anyway as the point where the sight is calibrated to will change over distance.
About 15-20 years ago I experimented with using a pellet gun dot sight for BIF. It worked well for smaller birds at closer ranges. I found it superior to shooting with both eyes open, but that's because I can't use both eyes with a big telephoto without triggering a wave of vertigo.
That's exactly why I said in the former thread this kind of dot sights are not very capable unless you're allways shooting at about the same distance.
If you however get a real quality dot sight it's pretty paralaxfree and absolutely accurate.
When shooting a long FL with a very narrow FOV the dot sight will help to acquire initial focus a LOT and it works better than the two-eyes method. (Combined/calibrated with one of the cross sensors offcourse)
I agree one won't need it once used to the narrow FOV but in the beginning it certainly helps to get the feeling.
Nonetheless I still use it (sometimes) for fast erratic moving subjects suddenly appearing within shooting range.
ibbo wrote:
Agree. Not expensive and more useful than some people are suggesting. What's not to like?
Not paralaxfree, too much play in the hotshoe thus causing the need for calibration over and over again?
I didn't comment on props like vulnerability and fogging up.
You say not expensive? For that kind of money (172US mrsp) you can buy a good reflex dot sight performing a LOT better.
For the same performance but a lot less money I'd get this one. (It is equipped with a hotshoe adaptor)
I briefly thought about setting up a dot sight on my camera since I mostly shoot fast moving targets. But when I thought it through, I knew it would be worthless to me. That's because my subjects not only move horizontally to me, they also move further and closer and I couldn't control the field of view by zooming and filling the frame. So I dropped the idea.
