Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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