The LX finder has a range of colored lights along the right side, plus the red flag for exposure compensation warning, plus a blue flag to indicate the chosen shutter speed, plus a shutter speed scale, plus the aperture window that shows the aperture on the lens. The colored LEDs along the right side glow different colors for different situations: green for "hand holdable" speeds, yellow for times slower than 1/30 second, and a red LED to show over exposure. With all that information and the automatic and manual modes of the camera, I spend too much time thinking about the information presented and how to interpret it - it's distracting.
Indeed, the istD has more info than I need or want, as do many modern cameras. I don't need any of that information poking me in the eye, but once cameras went from purely manual to having "features and modes," the information had to be presented to the photographer in some direct way - at least that's what camera manufacturers believed and, seemingly, a lot of photogs wanted. This isn't an argument, it's a discussion. The LX is a fine camera, but it's just not my preferred camera for the reasons mentioned here and in other posts. The final straw came in 2002 when I snapped a pic of a group of people listening to a speech outside, in a public area. The crowd was fairly large, there was some ambient noise (cars and buses going by, people talking, some wind, that sort of thing). I made one quick shot from the back of the crowd and a moment or two later someone came up to me and asked that I not take pictures as the camera noise was disturbing. Outside in a crowd!!!!! As for fitting in a shirt pocket, I did say a LARGE pocket. I have some shirts of that sort, although most don't have pockets large enough for any camera I own with the exception of the little Sony digicam, should the lens hood be removed and the lens be retracted. Shel > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm trying to figure out what "more information" the LX has over the MX, but > the only thing I can think of is the permanent presence of the whole shutter- > speed range -- not much more than the MX. Am I forgetting anything? [...] > But my dear sir, if you think the LX has a colorful busy finder, you really > would hate the *ist D! As a matter of fact I don't think you'd care for the > PZ-1 or the ZXen either. > Yes, I seem to remember your telling me about the MX being quieter than the > LX, back in the days before I had an MX. > None of the cameras cited could fit in MY shirt pockets, by the way ... ;-)
