Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Sep 19, 2006, at 10:59 AM, Cotty wrote: > >> Of possible interest to note in this thread: TV cameras still use CRTs >> for viewfinders. The LCDs still don't come anywhere close in >> quality. As >> such, I use an electronic viewfinder (EVF) every day for between >> one and >> four hours. It's not up to an optical viewfinder, but it's light years >> ahead of still camera EVFs. A friend has an Oly with an EVF and I >> looked >> down the eyepiece and recoiled in horror. He seemed to think it >> okay but >> no way could in take that.
> The interesting thing is that those tiny CRTs are likely lower > resolution than the LCD displays, but the high refresh speed and > crispness make them much nicer on the eye. > > Of the EVF cameras I've owne, the Oly C8080WZ had a really poor EVF, Ahhh, there it is... No need to wait any longer! My much appreciated 8080, torn to shreds! Sighhh. - keith > the Panasonic FZ10 was very low resolution and slow refresh ... birds > on the wing literally disappeared in the display due to the slow > refresh and poor resolution although the manual focus resolution was > not bad with the use of the magnifier ... the Sony F707/717/828 were > all ok but didn't provide very good manual focusing magnification. > The R1's is a cut above the other Sonys in that they provide adequate > magnification on manual focus and the option of 60hz refresh rate > (still slows down in low light since it's pulling the data off the > main sensor as fast as it can). > > The A2 has so far been the best with both more pixels (at 922,000 > pixels, it's close to 4x the density of the R1), 60hz refresh option, > and a pretty good magnification option. It also has more user > configuration options that allow it to work well in poor light > circumstances. > > No EVF can be as responsive as an optical viewfinder, it will always > take more time to process a raster display than to just transmit and > bend light, but given enough development to produce more resolution > and higher refresh rates, they might come to meet the practical needs > of the optical reflex system in terms of resolution and > responsiveness while providing some interesting possible advantages > beyond what can be done with optics alone. > > Godfrey > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
