The lists of best-selling cameras seem dominated by retro-styled digital models. But while there are plenty of SLR-inspired cameras, there’s one feature that I would really like to see return in a serious digital camera: the waist-level finder.
Waist-level finders or viewfinders aren’t completely non-existent on modern digital cameras. There’s the cheap toy camera Chuzhao. On the other end of the spectrum, the Hasselblad CFV 100C digital back can be used to convert some film cameras to digital, including some with waist-level finders. But I haven’t yet come across a modern digital camera with a waist-level finder that sits at a price somewhere between a toy and medium format.
