Adam Maas wrote: > Actually, the E-10 and E-20 were optical viewfinders.
OK, I trust you. I've never been interested in ZLR's and I can be wrong here. > Olympus went form > traditional SLR's, to fixed zoom SLR's (their film ZLR's), to Digital > ZLR's (E-10 and E-20) to DSLR's, then experimented with adding EVF > features to DSLR's (something that many people coming from P&S's ask > about) and then essentially abandoning the Live Preview idea. > > Panasonic has moved steadily towards a real SLR, adding mechanical zoom, > focus-by-wire and other SLR features, then bringing out a real SLR, and > ignoring the full-time live preview they could have easily added to the > DMC-L1 (As it shares a mirror box and finder with the E-330, Panaleica > could easily have added that feature, but chose not to). Once again, I just wanted to highlight that CE manufacturers such as Sony and Panasonic are (were) the companies you can expect to put together an EVF system camera, because of: 1 - Large consumer base oriented companies. 2 - Electronics is their strength. 3 - No SLR culture in their management/design depts. 4 - No film era systems to build on. This is no longer true, since they came to rescue of KM and Oly. 5 - Already selling products which are closer to that concept than any other camera manufacturer. I don't expect Pentax to venture in such a project. This said, I'm not particularly in favor of such a mirrorless camera. Sure I don't miss it now. If someone will do that (and I'm convinced it will happen, sooner or later), I'm going to look at pros and cons of such a device when it will surface and I can touch and see it. No opinons at this moment. Dario (who no longer dares to comment about Olympus being afraid to misspell its name ;-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
