Hi, Thursday, January 13, 2005, 12:00:30 AM, Shel wrote:
> The viewfinders in many of these digicams are terrible, and the only way > you have even a clue as to what you're gonna capture is to look at the > display on the back - that is, if the glare from the sun or the brightness > of the day doesn't make viewing the screen near impossible. You (Us, we?) > film camera users that have good viewfinders don't know how well off we are > until we look through the finders of some of the newer cameras, digi or > otherwise. Plus, some of the digicams don't even have a viewfinder, so > looking at the "TV screen" is the only way to determine what the pic may be > like. I have a little 2 megapixel digicam. The parallax is all over the place when you use the viewfinder. The only way to get accurate framing is to use the cinemascope on the back. Fortunately I live in England, so there's never any glare from the sun, and no bright daylight. -- Cheers, Bob
