The VF-2 EVF is supposed to be very nice but it is $250. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:41 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
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