Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Mark, absolutely not IME. The EVF is and was the little LCD, or even CRT in the old days, with a little eyepiece in front of it that you squint into to frame your video/picture on some sorts of camera. They were/are fitted to medium priced video and still cameras, though as the screen on the rear has got bigger most cameras leave them off altogether now. I am not aware of anyone referring to the screen on the back of digital cameras as a EVF, in fact the term has been being used in the discussions about the Olympus EP1 and Panasonic GF1 on this and other fora, with regard to the absence of EVF on these cameras, and/or the addition of an auxiliary EVF rather than an optical finder. It seems to me that the screen on the back of the camera is -not- a viewfinder, but a monitor which can be used for framing on -some- cameras but by no means all. Frank On 20 Jan, 2010, at 09:11, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> Hi Mark, >> The GF1 EVF is an option, perhaps they were mot aware of it??? >> The monitor LCD on the back is just like they all have. >> Frank >> by the way the first time I saw Electronic Viewfinder abbreviated to EVF >> was >> with my first VHS video camera about 25 years ago. Its use on this forum >> probably only started during the discussions of the EVF on the Leica >> (which >> was a chrome Panasonic LC1 forget the Leica model number), around >> 2003/2004 >> winter. There was a -lot- of discussion about this at that time... >> > > I've got it standing for Electronic viewfinder. > That would be the monitor on the back your looking at would it not? The > Geek > name for it? Not an optical viewfinder with the same geeks call an OVF I > think. > > If you were in a filled elevator and you said the EVF was busted on your > camrea how many people on it would have a clue in hell what you were > talking > about? My guess would be one. The guy with the camera doing the talking. > The elevator operator might make a stab at it and say it was the Embedded > Vector Format and "would you make an emergency stop on the 5th and a half > floor?" > If you said your monitor was on the blink everyone would know what you were > talking about. And that includes on the bus or the Lobby of B&H. Kids and > Grandmas. > > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information