On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 07:56:40PM +0100, Cotty wrote: > I hope that Pentax are watching this one. Something like this is just > the sort of thing that could create a niche market. Leica is just too > expensive. Not everyone wants to compose using a LCD. Like a bit of > quality but without an extortionate price tag. A decent name and > pedigree - this is something I have been waiting for. > > There was nothing wrong with the way cameras in the past were used to > make photos. You held the thing up to your eye, clicked the shutter and > that was it. It didn't need reinventing with a screen. Okay, make > something with a screen as well because having both ways would be > beneficial to some people. But just provide a screen and no viewfinder > at all? Nuts. Complete waste of time to me. Not interested in the slightest.
That's about how I feel about a camera without interchangeable lenses. I like being able to use the different focal lengths in my arsenal. And good glass remains good glass, even as sensor technology evolves; I wouldn't want a lens permanently mated to any particular sensor. My ideal camera would have a viewfinder that covered just a little bit more than the area of the sensor (the one thing I really liked about rangefinders was that you could see what was just outside the framing lines, and adjust composition appropriately). But trying to make one viewfinder image work for wide angle and telephoto is a compromise. You can only do so much with a viewfinder that isn't using the main lens (or an equivalent, for the very few twin-lens reflex designs). I guess what I want is pretty close to a "full-frame" viewfinder mated to a smaller sensor (or a dual-mode sensor that can limit the exposed area to a cropped region for use with DA lenses). I agree that only providing a rear screen is a limiting interface. That's why we recently picked up an Olympus E-PL1 as a walkaround camera. My wife got to use it for the first time (apart from one or two quick test shots) last weekend at the Renaissance Faire, and there were a couple of occasions where the optional viewfinder would have been of benefit. -- 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.
