Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sadly the new "Pen" seems to have no viewfinder. I have never got used to holding a camera at arms length, framing using a screen on the back. Certainly I am unable to either see the screen adequately with my varifocal specs, nor consider it possible to hold it adequately still to take a photograph this way in challenging light. This thing is no more use to me than any other finder-less P&S. I much prefer the poor optical viewfinder on my P&S to using it this way. On a tripod for macro focussing these systems are a bit easier, particularly when the shot leads to an inconvenient camera position, but then an articulating screen is just as much the key. Maybe some nice lenses will ensue though! cheers, Frank On 15 Jun, 2009, at 21:10, Didier Ludwig wrote: > Those interested in the rumoured Olympus micro-4/3 camera, the "Pen > F celebration" model, might have a look here. Could be a fake, but > most Olympus freaks believe it is real: > > Exchangeable lens, fixed focal length - actually a f2.8 17mm (34mm > eq.) - and an optical finder: http://tinyurl.com/n2maaf > > Panasonic is said to come up with a 20mm/f1.7 lens for the same > system. > > When the micro-4/3 system was presented more than a year ago, it was > my first idea that such a system should lead to something ecaxtly > like that. A compact camera with a better sensor than other compacts > and a good optical finder. > > Didier > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information