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Subject: [Leica] Digital SLR viewfinders suck.
From: leowesson at gmail.com (Leo Wesson)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:17:52 -0600
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None better except for a d4!

Leo Wesson
photographer?videographer
leo at leowesson.com
817?733?9157

On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Chris Williams <zoeica at mac.com> wrote:

> Guess ya'll don't shoot with the Nikon D3 :) Not as bright as the R8/ 
> R9 but very close.
>
>
> Chris
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Zeitlin"
> Subject: [Leica] Digital SLR viewfinders suck.
>
>
>> 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
>>
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Digital SLR viewfinders suck.)
Message from zoeica at mac.com (Chris Williams) ([Leica] Digital SLR viewfinders suck.)