Oops, it's Pogue day today. David writes about the Sony A300. It seems Sony is the one to make live view really usable.
I wonder how much money and bulk they could save by doing away with the viewfinder altogether?
Many photographers, especially old-time ones, won't hear of that. But I wonder how much of that is just habit? When I use a digital compact, I never use the viewfinder, I use the screen. I feel it helps me see the composition in relation with the frame, something that's easy to overlook in a viewfinder (which is why so many pictures have too much background around the main subject).
I suspect that if cameras had always had screens to use for composition, and somebody now brought out a camera where you had to press it against your face, nobody would use it. :)
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Your link points to page 2 of Pogue's post... ;-)
Well, it was the important page!
:)
Thanks.
I've used both viewfinders and compacts with screen and I really don't like screens to compose a photo. Often, it shifts exposure while I am trying to compose, or there is glare of some kind and I can't see it clearly enough. At least with my viewfinder, I know what is in my frame without glare or shifting exposure changing in front of me and making it hard to see what is really in the screen.
Mmm, I haven't had that problem. To me it's mainly that most screens are still too small and low-rez.
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