Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I occasionally enjoyed those "view camera moments" with the Leica Brick (digilux i believe) where looking at the screen for a landscape or macro photo made sense especially if the camera was on a tripod. however - that never came close to Leica Range Finder photography Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Jun 16, 2009, at 2:06 AM, Gary Todoroff wrote: > OhMyGosh, you're right, George! (and Frank, too) I completely > ignored what I had assumed would be a high quality EVF finder like > on my Olympus C-8080. Duh! How can Olympus have left that out?! I > guess we are all more a dying breed than ever imagined, those of us > who still would like a camera held up to the eyes occasionally. > Does NOBODY bother anymore to make a creative camera without > completely abdicating to marketing and the bean counters!? I do use > the view screen on my E-330 sometimes, George, but just for special > purposes like viewing through a twin lens reflex, or shooting while > braced on a table top, or composing on a tripod with the camera > cranked above my head. Very handy and creative sometimes for shots > I would never have acquired through the optical viewfinder > approach. You're right, Doug - without an EVF, the EP-1 is a P&S :-( > Regretfully, > Gary > > I'm completely At 05:20 PM 6/15/2009, you wrote: >> Hi Gary, >> >> How do you suppose one would know where it's focusing >> when looking through an optical view finder on top of the camera? >> >> Or do you feel comfortable with holding the camera at arms length >> to view the screen? >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information