It's very useful to have and eye level finder for long lenses and MF. In the context of this thread, however, that VF doesn't need to be optical. The X Pro can switch back and forth between the two, but I wonder how necessary that really is if the EVF is fairly high res.
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:28 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:52:24AM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> On Jan 10, 2012, at 9:47 AM, John Francis wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 07:41:54AM -0500, Steven Desjardins wrote: >> >> IMHO, the EVF is probably the best actual route to provide accurate >> >> framing and information in non-reflex cameras. The optical one looks >> >> nicer, but it's not as useful a tool in terms of information provided. >> >> I have found that EVFs are extremely handy in low light. I'm quite >> interested in an APS "rangefinder" with low light performance at least as >> good as the K-5, especially one with an adapter so I can use K-mount lenses. >> >> >> Of course, we're used to all these advantages together with the SLR >> >> so individual reactions may vary. I don't feel the EVF limits my >> >> photography so the only question now for me is LCD screen versus >> >> eye-level. >> > >> > That very much depends on the camera. But from my experience yesterday >> > with the E-PL1 in bright California sunshine (checking out the 40-150 >> > lens that has mysteriously turned up in my wife's camera kit) I think >> > the add-on eye-level finder will soon end up in the bag, too. >> >> Wow! that WAF is one sneaky girl. > > I didn't say who was responsible for the lens turning up there ... > > > -- > 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
