A friend of mine was in the same boat a year or so ago. I found out that she would be doing deliberate shooting where focusing carefully would matter. She was leaning towards a Nikon D70 at the time, as she was a Nikon film shooter. I had her go to several stores and comparison shop the viewfinders. In the end she ended up getting a *istDS.
I agree, the viewfinder is critical and Pentax has done a good job on them for the digital SLR's. -- Best regards, Bruce Friday, September 22, 2006, 3:04:49 PM, you wrote: JB> I'm doing my part: JB> A few months ago, my good friend Dave was shopping for a DSLR. I JB> recommended he looked into a DS or DS2 because of the viewfinder. I JB> also said that whatever he bought, to try to look through the cameras JB> side by side. JB> Despite all that, he went with a Canon 350D and the kit lens, whatever it is. JB> Today he wrote saying that night photography with that is impossible. JB> The camera is impossible to focus, either in auto or manual. He seemed JB> really frustrated. JB> I showed him a link to the K10D in dpreview, and told him it has a JB> real viewfinder and SR. He's drooling right now, and will probably get JB> one when it comes out. JB> Pentax seems to be the only manufacturer getting it regarding JB> viewfinders. Why use an SLR if the vf is small and dim? It completely JB> defeats the purpose, IMO. JB> I'm still waiting for the DSLR with an aps sensor but a full frame vf, JB> and framing lines. It doesn't seem it would be so hard or expensive JB> for them to put a ZX5's viewfinder into a K100d, no? JB> j JB> -- JB> Juan Buhler - http://www.jbuhler.com JB> photoblog: http://photoblog.jbuhler.com JB> a book: http://www.jbuhler.com/book.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
