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 Ok well I guess I need to apologize to half the lug for the misunderstanding over the past months. I thought it was another name for a monitor on the back of a camera. Not a little mini TV in an eyepiece which it seems to be. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner