Well, Aahz, I suppose it is power to you then. You see, starting with
K-7, the default focusing screen wasn't properly located for accurate
shallow DOF manual focus (think 77/1.8 wide open or worse yet 50/1.2
wide open). I had a saga with K-7 shimming. The K-5 that I bought brand
new - I decided not to get involved with this. So I bought a second hand
K-5 which has properly shimmed screen. The problem is - my eyes become
very tired very soon. Yes, I can hit focus, but not for long, not with
any convenience anyway. Not so with my Ricoh GXR EVF.
Again - I'm not saying that OVFs are junk. I'm saying that me in
particular is better served with this particular kind of EVF. I looked
at Panasonic's EVF that my brother bought for his LX-5 (or LX-7,
whatever). It wasn't good at all although it was more modern than that
of my Ricoh.
I'm saying though that the EVFs have evolved enough to be sufficiently
good tool for working with the camera.
Boris
On 9/11/2013 6:13 PM, Aahz Maruch wrote:
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, Boris Liberman wrote:
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
... I'm not a big fan of composing on the LCD and have yet to
actually try an electronic viewfinder.
You may be very pleasantly surprised on both counts here. I don't
easily recall when I last used my K-5 and I totally don't miss optical
viewfinder thereof...
Well, I've used all three recently: LCD screen, OVF (K-5 and Nikon
P7100), and EVF (Fuji X-S1). I overall prefer the K-5 OVF; the P7100's
OVF is useless for anything other than a backup in bright light. But a
screen, particularly a tilting or articulated screen, makes certain
shots a lot easier; a current-generation EVF is better than the P7100's
OVF.
If the K-5 had a better live view screen, I'd probably use it a bit more
than I did on our cruise, but really, viewfinders have better shooting
ergonomics.
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