[Leica] Chills on the lack of the OVF on.. *Olympus* E-P1

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 5:24 AM +0100 6/19/09, Frank Dernie wrote:
>I think that producing a quality zooming optical viewfinder and 
>correctly linking it to the lens mounted on the camera would 
>probably quadruple the manufacturing cost, or more, and it would not 
>be a sufficiently compelling feature to sell in sufficient numbers 
>to justify production. An astonishing number of people find it 
>acceptable to hold their camera up in the air and compose on the 
>screen on the back, even believing they can achieve sharp results 
>that way. I do not think it will ever happen.
>OTOH perhaps there is a big enough market for a high quality 
>electronic viewfinder. I find the benefit of the Panasonic G1 
>viewfinder is that is big and bright, and the quality is better than 
>I expected. I find the downsides to be different irritations than 
>using a small dim reflex viewing system common to inexpensive small 
>sensor SLRs, personally. In poor light they are even quite bright. 
>Overall far from perfect, and different from that I am used to, but 
>an appealing set of compromises non the less.
>If the Olympus was the same size and had a small screen on the back 
>to service the menus but a super quality EVF top left, I would have 
>ordered one already. Unfortunately that is too different to the norm 
>for the majority of upgrading P&S customers (the target market for 
>Olympus) to accept. IMO.
>Frank
>

Exactly.


F1 is dead. Long live F1.

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