On Aug 22, 2007, at 8:07 AM, Joseph Tainter wrote: >>> A lot of the new point 'n shoot digitals don't even have a >>> viewfinder >>> anymore. The only way you can compose the image is to look at the >>> little >>> TV screen on the back. >> >> Yes, they're just great with daylight coming from behind you, much >> the >> same reason the K10D screen based menu settings are less appealing in >> a country where sunlight is abundant and clouds are sparse. > > Much of photographic display technology in recent decades has left out > those of us who live and shoot in sunny places. I find in-viewfinder > displays useless for much of my daylight shooting. I'm sure it doesn't > help that I wear glasses. > > Camera companies should send their display designers to live in the > Sahara, or some such place, and make them wear glasses whether they > need > to or not.
Just like using a medium format camera with a waist level finder or a view finder, the sensible thing to do is to use some kind of shade or hood to promote a better view of the viewfinder when in situations that require it. All this fuss over something that is just common sense... Shade the LCD with your hand if the sun is hitting it and you need it to see what you're doing, and don't have a proper shade. Sheesh. I'd rather have a decent sized LCD and carry a shade than look through the smarmy little warped, distorted, peephole sight that they call an optical finder on most of todays compact cameras. :-\ Those things are a complete waste of time ... not a one of them comes up the quality of even the simple viewfinder on my Rollei 35. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
