[Leica] EP1

[vroger at gmail.com (Victor Rubin)]

Beautifully said- absolutely correct!!!- vroger

Frank Dernie wrote:
>I think that producing a quality zooming optical viewfinder and
>correctly linking it to the lens mounted on the camera would
>probably quadruple the manufacturing cost, or more, and it would not
>be a sufficiently compelling feature to sell in sufficient numbers
>to justify production. An astonishing number of people find it
>acceptable to hold their camera up in the air and compose on the
>screen on the back, even believing they can achieve sharp results
>that way. I do not think it will ever happen.
>OTOH perhaps there is a big enough market for a high quality
>electronic viewfinder. I find the benefit of the Panasonic G1
>viewfinder is that is big and bright, and the quality is better than
>I expected. I find the downsides to be different irritations than
>using a small dim reflex viewing system common to inexpensive small
>sensor SLRs, personally. In poor light they are even quite bright.
>Overall far from perfect, and different from that I am used to, but
>an appealing set of compromises non the less.
>If the Olympus was the same size and had a small screen on the back
>to service the menus but a super quality EVF top left, I would have
>ordered one already. Unfortunately that is too different to the norm
>for the majority of upgrading P&S customers (the target market for
>Olympus) to accept. IMO.
>Frank