Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now that Leica has shown a full frame digital can be small, hopefully an innovative company would come out with the equivalence of the OM-1. Unfortunately, as much as I love Olympus, I fear that the siren song of the micro 4/3 will mean that their energy will be in that space :-( On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > Douglas writes" > "Over the last couple of months I picked up quite a few Non-AF cameras at > > rock-bottom prices to play around with - a couple of Canon A1s, a Pentax > > MX, an OM-10 and a Yashica FX-D - all of them have viewfinders much > > brighter the ones in my Canon EOS 500N and 20D." > > - - - - - > > The best SLR viewfinders for me are the ones in the Olympus OM-1 and OM-2. > Large, clear and bright plus the ability to interchange screens for > specific > purposes. Too bad no company, not even Olympus, has seen fit to make a DSLR > the same size as the OM series with the same clear viewfinder. I could do > without the bells and whistles, the auto focus, and the movie mode but not > without the viewfinder. The size seems a natural for 4/3. Olympus really > regressed in the E-500 series. > > > On a related note, I really miss adequate optical viewfinders on the > current > crop of P&S digitals. I find it almost impossible to use the LCD screen on > a > sunny day. I'm thinking of going back to a black view camera focusing > cloth. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> blog: < http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // portfolio: <http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/AnotherCalifornia > // mailing lists: <http://www.imagecraft.com/contact.html> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]