shmne
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Very hard in the digital age.
The newer and newer digital cameras have worse and worse viewfinders. Using a manual lens on most digital cameras is like plucking the smallest of hairs with tweezers. Every time you think you have it, that was just the shadow and you missed the hair!
Unfortunately as we moved into the auto focus digital era there was little need for manual focusing, so the prism splitting the light between the viewfinder and the sensor puts more light on the sensor and substantially less on the viewfinder.
I don't know numbers for sure, but last I had heard it was about 10% of all light going into the viewfinder while the rest hits the sensor. Older film cameras had about 50 / 50 split.
You can get around auto focusing if you are shooting stills or things that are just easy to focus around, however people, animals, cars, it will be difficult since there is very little help manually focusing.
The newer and newer digital cameras have worse and worse viewfinders. Using a manual lens on most digital cameras is like plucking the smallest of hairs with tweezers. Every time you think you have it, that was just the shadow and you missed the hair!
Unfortunately as we moved into the auto focus digital era there was little need for manual focusing, so the prism splitting the light between the viewfinder and the sensor puts more light on the sensor and substantially less on the viewfinder.
I don't know numbers for sure, but last I had heard it was about 10% of all light going into the viewfinder while the rest hits the sensor. Older film cameras had about 50 / 50 split.
You can get around auto focusing if you are shooting stills or things that are just easy to focus around, however people, animals, cars, it will be difficult since there is very little help manually focusing.