[Leica] Another reason to hate Canon. -CORRECTION

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard F. Man)]

B.D. I think it's Michael R. from Luminous-Landscape that says Canon 
install a coarser and worse screen but trying to spin it as for better for 
manual focusing... I don't think the dpreview team said anything negative 
about it. In fact, I know for sure that another reviewer (Rob something) 
touts it as a better screen. Whether he is parroting Canon or from personal 
experience, I don't know.

At 01:24 PM 8/21/2004, B. D. Colen wrote:

>I agree you should look for yourself, but the dpreview reviews have
>prove over time to be extremely even handed and accurate.
>
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>[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>Ted Grant
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>Subject: Re: [Leica] Another reason to hate Canon. -CORRECTION
>
>
>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)."
>
>
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