Working from the rear lcd only is for people who don't manually focus obviously. Its ok for composition in subdued light, but that's about it.
----------------- J.C.O'Connell [email protected] ----------------- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 2:29 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: First Full Frame (digital) P&S: Sony RX1 On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/10/2012 8:09 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: >> >> a $2800 p&s with no VF and fixed lens is a colossal waste of money, in >> my myopic opinion. > > > Well, let's have a look. Some say that 35mm is THE focal length. Some other > people say that Carl Zeiss T* is THE optics. Compare it with the > alternatives you have now: > > * Monstrous FF DSLR with similar lens - modern offering well above 5 grand. > > * Leica M9 with a similar lens - you will cross into the five digits realm > easily, sir. > > So, there will be sufficiently many people who might wanna say that this is > THE camera for them at rather bargain price... > > I pray you look at the bright side of life here, Doug. Absolutely. Because you'll have to hold this away from you like a dirty diaper, the resulting camera shake blur in your shots will mask any focus problems you'll have. So it's all good! I just can't wait for viewfinders to be (re-)invented in about 15 years and heralded as a an astounding image quality breakthrough. -- -bmw -- 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.
