William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff"
Subject: Re: LCD screens and the way we photograph...
Really? Is this supposition on your part or is your opinion based on
some
facts. I'd love to know as I've priced and paid for a good optical
rangefinder recently, and it wasn't cheap, costing more than many entire
cameras.
Look through an electronic viewfinder some time, and imagine how much
it would cost to make it as good as even a cheap optical finder.......
Yes. More or less what I did.
The "fact" I'm basing my opinion is of course that I believe I have at
least a rough idea of what display technology costs. It seems to me that
LCDs on modern digicams make up a rather significant proportion of the
total cost of the equipment, and it seems to me they have low
resolution/very large pixels compared to what's required for a
electronic finder comparable to a decent optical one.
And, I believe someone said the rangefinder mentioned above was a Leica
one. Surely you can't draw conclusions about the general cost of
anything based on their prices?
- T
