[Leica] Digital SLR viewfinders suck.

[zoeica at mac.com (Chris Williams)]

Guess ya'll don't shoot with the Nikon D3 :) Not as bright as the R8/R9 but 
very close.


Chris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence Zeitlin"
Subject: [Leica] Digital SLR viewfinders suck.


> Douglas writes"
> "Over the last couple of months I picked up quite a few Non-AF cameras at
>
> rock-bottom prices to play around with - a couple of Canon A1s, a Pentax
>
> MX, an OM-10 and a Yashica FX-D - all of them have viewfinders much
>
> brighter the ones in my Canon EOS 500N and 20D."
>
> - - - - -
>
> The best SLR viewfinders for me are the ones in the Olympus OM-1 and OM-2.
> Large, clear and bright plus the ability to interchange screens for 
> specific
> purposes. Too bad no company, not even Olympus, has seen fit to make a 
> DSLR
> the same size as the OM series with the same clear viewfinder. I could do
> without the bells and whistles, the auto focus, and the movie mode but not
> without the viewfinder. The size seems a natural for 4/3. Olympus really
> regressed in the E-500 series.
>
>
> On a related note, I really miss adequate optical viewfinders on the 
> current
> crop of P&S digitals. I find it almost impossible to use the LCD screen on 
> a
> sunny day. I'm thinking of going back to a black view camera focusing 
> cloth.
>
> Larry Z
>
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