Godfrey, I find your last remark (I've put '*'s around it) most interesting. I should be alert on any opportunity to try modern EVF system for manual focusing. Presently I doubt your assessment, but I haven't yet witnessed any modern EVF system, only older ones. I find Pentax 645NII viewfinder to be the best I have ever tried, but I sure need more experience with those EVF systems. Again, you're making your conclusion based on practical shooting en masse using all the systems you listed. I am talking more based on general comfort of my eyes. I've made two-digit number of shots with Pentax 645NII (20-30 or so) and they all came out in focus, but it is too small a sample. For my K10D I have OptiBrite Katz Eye screen and that magnifier thingie by Pentax. Seemingly this is the best one could get for their K10D camera. It is not bad, but it obviously it could be better. Naturally, main problem is to tell when out of focus -> in focus transition happens...
Let all our viewfinders be bright... Boris On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 12, 2009, Scott Loveless wrote: > >>> For me it's certainly not the case. >>> >>> A high quality EVF is simply a better viewfinder for manual focusing than >>> any optical reflex viewfinder found on the market today. >> >> That's the problem, isn't it? I have yet to use a "high quality" EVF >> that's better than most 25 year old pentaprisms. > > *I find the G1's EVF provides better focusing capability than the Pentax 645 > medium format SLR viewfinder. Or my Nikon F3/Thp viewfinder, which was The > Best 35mm optical reflex viewfinder I ever used.* > > Godfrey -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
