[Leica] Another reason to hate Canon. -CORRECTION

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

I agree you should look for yourself, but the dpreview reviews have
prove over time to be extremely even handed and accurate.

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Ted Grant
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 3:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Another reason to hate Canon. -CORRECTION


Dan C said:
" <bladman99@yahoo.ca>
Subject: RE: [Leica] Another reason to hate Canon. -CORRECTION


> All is not gravy.   Read what the guy at dpreview says about the
viewfinder
> for the Canon 20D (or said, I can't seem to find it now).   To save
money,
> Canon has used a smaller prism and smaller mirror, resulting in a
noticably
> darker and grittier view of the groundglass.
>
> Check out 
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/20d-part1.shtml.  
> This
is
> where I got the poor viewfinder info.


Hi Dan,
I don't imagine you nor I have looked through this D20's viewfinder as
yet, so as I usually do, I take any review with a bucket of salt before
I see for myself. Yep it's good to know some of these perceived /
possible "problems." But like many a movie reviewer who shoots down a
movie only to find out ourselves " it's a smashing great movie!" I find
reviews should not be taken as serious verbatim truth.

Like art, like camera, it's all in the eye of the beholding user! Simply
because many a reviewer can't shoot their way out of a paper napkin and
they have their own quirks of camera bias! Besides this is one opinion
and not that of a 100 users!

Each time I read a ton of negativism about any camera, I re-call all the
bull shit about the R8 by many Leica folks who had only seen a picture
or had it in hand for 5 minutes in a shop. Then in that few moments
deduced it was a terrible camera. When in fact it's one of the best
SLR's they produced, well Ok that's from those of us who use them, 3 in
my case. ;-)

I found the general description of he D20 interesting, now I want to get
my hands on one if nothing else to make my own opinion on viewfinder and
other characters of working, handling.

ted

> "...This makes the viewfinder a bit dimmer and a bit coarser than the 
> previous generation. The coarseness isn't all that apparent indoors or

> under low contrast outdoor light conditions, but outdoors on a bright
sunny
> day it's painfully obvious. (Canon claims that the coarseness to aid
manual
> focusing, but that's just marketing BS; simply an attempt to turn a 
> deficiency into a feature)."


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