Optical viewfinder yes, compact no. The D50 is an older Nikon DSLR. I suspect you're referring to the P50, which should be avoided. Nikon's P&S production of the last few years start at bad and get rapidly worse.
Optical finders are dying off. Mostly because P&S finders are typically horrid. -Adam On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Luiz Felipe <luiz.fel...@techmit.com.br> wrote: > ...about to attacked... > Scott, the Nikon D50 - I think that's the model - offers a compact with wide > angle zoom and optical viewfinder, around $100. Optical finders are getting > hard to find indeed... > > LF (well, if Pentax offered any I'd suggest it) > > Scott Loveless escreveu: >> >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Jaume Lahuerta <jlah...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> The Canon A series used to be a great compromise between features and >>> price...at a cost, that in this case was its size. >> >> I've been looking at the A series. I just have to bottle my >> conscience long enough to actually buy one. ;) Canon seems to be >> offering something I little closer to what I really want than anyone >> else right now. I'll keep digging. There are a lot of P&S cameras >> out there. >> >>> BTW, I read a very favourable review (5 stars) in the French Magazine CdI >>> of the Pentax P70. It seems that the image quality is good and the camera is >>> really small. The drawback is that t has SR based on software post >>> processing, and this produces a lag between frames when shooting at full >>> resolution. No optical VF I am afraid. >> >> "No optical VF" is a deal breaker, unfortunately. Didn't someone >> offer a small digital camera with a prime lens not too long ago? >> > > -- > Luiz Felipe > luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br > http://techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
