[Leica] GF-1 getting trashed on Wired.com

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Hi Mark,
> absolutely not IME. The EVF is and was the little LCD, or even CRT in the 
> old
> days, with a little eyepiece in front of it that you squint into to frame 
> your
> video/picture on some sorts of camera. They were/are fitted to medium 
> priced
> video and still cameras, though as the screen on the rear has got bigger 
> most
> cameras leave them off altogether now.
> I am not aware of anyone referring to the screen on the back of digital
> cameras as a EVF, in fact the term has been being used in the discussions
> about the Olympus EP1 and Panasonic GF1 on this and other fora, with 
> regard to
> the absence of EVF on these cameras, and/or the addition of an auxiliary 
> EVF
> rather than an optical finder.
> It seems to me that the screen on the back of the camera is -not- a
> viewfinder, but a monitor which can be used for framing on -some- cameras 
> but
> by no means all.
> Frank


Ok well I guess I need to apologize to half the lug for the misunderstanding
over the past months.
I thought it was another name for a monitor on the back of a camera.
Not a little mini TV in an eyepiece which it seems to be.

[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner