[Leica] Digital SLR viewfinders suck.

[richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

Now that Leica has shown a full frame digital can be small, hopefully an
innovative company would come out with the equivalence of the OM-1.
Unfortunately, as much as I love Olympus, I fear that the siren song of the
micro 4/3 will mean that their energy will be in that space :-(


On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
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