Quoting Luigi de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The truth of it, frank, is that compact digicam viewfinders--Pentax ones > included--suck. They don't show nearly enough of the frame, you have no > idea > what precisely you're focusing or metering on (no crosshairs, like the > olympus film compacts), and they're dim and squinty. The LCD is > full-coverage, so from a composition standpoint, much much much easier.
Then again, people's experiences differ. I choose the viewfinder instead of the LCD of my Optio 550 except when I need to check the focus, or when shooting a really close close-up as that's when the parallax error becomes a big problem. My main argument with the viewfinder is that the sliding diopter adjustment switch slides too easily ... Otherwise, a very usable viewfinder from my point of view. ERNR
