My first camera had a waist level finder, a Ross Ensign TLR which I think was 126 film. Awful quality and only contact prints were made, any enlargement would have been diabolical. I was about 5 at the time in the early post war years with bomb sites and all to photograph except no one bothered. The naturally lower viewpoint of waist level finders give a refreshingly different view to the "norm" as most people shoot from eye hight without thinking. Fixed focal length too which concentrates the mind as well but that is a different subject.
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