Interesting Boris, thanks. As I said in a previous message, my brief 'encounter' with a Pana G2 made me reconsider my strong EVF allergy. Let's see how this evolves.
Regards, Jaume ----- Mensaje original ---- > De: Boris Liberman <[email protected]> > Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Enviado: dom,5 diciembre, 2010 09:48 > Asunto: Brief but direct encounter with Sony SLT-A55 > > Hello there, great and wise women and men of PDML. I have witnessed Sony >SLT-A55 and here is the impressions from that encounter: > > 1. It is small and light. It is so small that people with bigger hands > (unlike >me) may have difficulty operating it. > > 2. A number of operations require that you press buttons on the back of the >camera and if you want to do so without taking it away from your eye, it may >be >a bit difficult at first. But after two-three times I did it, it did not felt >awkward at all. > > 3. The lack of mirror slap is unusual. It is even more unusual that the > sound >of shutter release /seems/ like it is combined of two distinct sounds. It is >not loud, though it is hard to tell if K-7 is quieter. And I did not have K-7 >on me to compare them side by side. > > 4. The EVF. Well, EVFs will rule the world. Seriously. Consider this: > > a. To perform precision manual focus you simply point you camera where you >want, press "delete" button twice and you get x7.5 magnified area where you >can >focus as precise as you want. You will also see how shaky your hands, but >once >you depress ever so slightly the shutter release button, the view returns >back >to regular and you can compose the shot. My immediate and first impression is >that this is /significantly/ more convenient than split focusing screen and >magnifying eye cap, simply because you get way more magnification and hence >the >precision. I tried it and was impressed by how easy the process was and how >precise I could focus effectively right out of the box. > > b. Since this thing is electronic, you can do all kinds of menu related >operations without taking the camera off your eye. I can hardly imagine how >often such a thing could be useful, but it is there nonetheless. > > c. I did a but of moving of the camera around rapidly - the response of the > VF >was sufficiently smooth. Nothing I could object to. > > d. At the end I did feel a bit of strain in my eyes, but it has to be said >that: > d1. I couldn't change the diopter correction if there were any. > d2. I usually have one or two days of felt eye strain if I change monitors. >Then it subsides. May be something similar would have happened if I had this >camera for more than 15 minutes. > > 5. As a funny or peculiar point, I'd like to point out that this camera also >has the electronic level that is implemented as a rather odd looking bracket >around the center of the screen. > > 6. And finally, for those of us who like to geotag - this camera has a >built-in GPS module that automatically geotags your images. > > All in all - worthy of any praise and quite excellent camera. > > 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. > -- 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.
