Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Use film, or block the panel!
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:26:23 -0700
References: <NABBLIJOIFAICKBIEPJJIEPKGGAB.darkroom@ix.netcom.com>

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 5:09 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Use film, or block the panel!


> Hi Tim,
>
> > > > well, action and sports is one thing... but the LCD panel on my
little
> > > > Nikon 5000 is a wonderful thing and gets you experimenting with
> > > > compositions you would never have seen through a viewfinder.
> > >
> > > Johnny...if it's not visible in the viewfinder, how is it visible on
the
> > > LCD?
> > >
> > > Austin
> >
> > He didn't say it wasn't visible, rather you would never have seen the
> > composition.
>
> How is that?  If it's visible on the LCD, it's visible in the
> viewfinder...and the composition is identical.
>
> > It's like a mini ground glass (only right way up). The screen
> > gives you a different image than the viewfinder - two dimensional
rather
> > than three. And psychologically different than the "tunnel"
> > vision on an SLR
>
> I've used LCD viewfinders for quite some time on digital cameras, and
don't
> find that to be true...for me...nor have I ever, in the many many people
> I've spoken to about the virtues/foibles of LCD finders ever mentioned
such
> a "thing".
>
> I'd like for you (or Johnny) to show an example.
>
> Regards,
>
> Austin
>
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