Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Come on, Austin, how can someone "show you" what they feel and perceive? >I'm not agreeing with the statements - I find the use of the screen to >view/compose quite disconcerting - but clearly this is one of those >aesthetic points that relates to how each individual relates to various >aspects of the equipment, rather than to something that an engineer can >measure. Which is to say that while one can spend years debating it, one >can never "settle" the debate. ;-) In my opinion the rear LCD of the DSLR does net have the function of checking if a taken picture is OK, because when you download in the PC it's always much better than you see in the LCD, but to check the big mistakes in exposition, mainly in underexposition. If you have got an histogram you can realize the correct distribution on the, let's say, light zones, and if you've got a zoom on the LCD you can roughly check the focus. I do not chek "every" picture, it wood take lots of time, but only those with some tricky light. In fact this feature have me forget the bracketing habits; you repeat until you get it! I do not believe in any similarity between the rear LCD and the large format ground glass as in it the focusing, with your loupe, is tack sharp and the composition if you have the right film marks in the glass is perfect (I use the reflex mirror viewer as I don't like the black cloth). And, Austin, a DSLR cannot, by design, have both reflex optical viewer "and" live LCD vision as the only sensor for feeding direct vision is the main captor who, before the shoot, is behind the instant return mirror. Some excellent fixed focus digital cameras like Minolta Dimage Hi7i have as main weakness to have "only" a poor LCD viewer but they have not a mirror! Kind regards Felix PS. The digital R9 back it's a good idea! But, if you forgive me for the quote, it reminds me the last scene of the opera La Traviata when the heroine, Violetta, sings, very ill, receiving the letter from Germont : "E tardi, e troppo tardi...", It's late, too late! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html