Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan C said: " <bladman99@yahoo.ca> Subject: RE: [Leica] Another reason to hate Canon. -CORRECTION > All is not gravy. Read what the guy at dpreview says about the viewfinder > for the Canon 20D (or said, I can't seem to find it now). To save money, > Canon has used a smaller prism and smaller mirror, resulting in a noticably > darker and grittier view of the groundglass. > > Check out > http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/20d-part1.shtml. This is > where I got the poor viewfinder info. Hi Dan, I don't imagine you nor I have looked through this D20's viewfinder as yet, so as I usually do, I take any review with a bucket of salt before I see for myself. Yep it's good to know some of these perceived / possible "problems." But like many a movie reviewer who shoots down a movie only to find out ourselves " it's a smashing great movie!" I find reviews should not be taken as serious verbatim truth. Like art, like camera, it's all in the eye of the beholding user! Simply because many a reviewer can't shoot their way out of a paper napkin and they have their own quirks of camera bias! Besides this is one opinion and not that of a 100 users! Each time I read a ton of negativism about any camera, I re-call all the bull shit about the R8 by many Leica folks who had only seen a picture or had it in hand for 5 minutes in a shop. Then in that few moments deduced it was a terrible camera. When in fact it's one of the best SLR's they produced, well Ok that's from those of us who use them, 3 in my case. ;-) I found the general description of he D20 interesting, now I want to get my hands on one if nothing else to make my own opinion on viewfinder and other characters of working, handling. ted > "...This makes the viewfinder a bit dimmer and a bit coarser than the > previous generation. The coarseness isn't all that apparent indoors or > under low contrast outdoor light conditions, but outdoors on a bright sunny > day it's painfully obvious. (Canon claims that the coarseness to aid manual > focusing, but that's just marketing BS; simply an attempt to turn a > deficiency into a feature)."