> > From: "John Celio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/06 Tue AM 04:46:02 GMT > To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: Optio S5z? > > >I see this as a self fulfilling prophecy. Put a squinty lousy optical > >finder on a camera and few people will use it. Since so few people use it > >put cheaper even worse finder on the next model. After a few iterations > >of this, no one is using the optical viewfinder, so obviously no optical > >viewfinder is necessary. > > Eh, I don't know, the viewfinders in the small cameras aren't really that > bad. They just seem small, like the cameras they're built into. I doubt > there's a way to build larger ones. I've never had a problem using > viewfinders (even with my glasses) in current digital P&S cameras, though I > admit I'd never use one when I can use the screen instead.
But..... Most of the people I've seen using compacts use standard snapshot methodology. You get your subject square-on in front of you looking towards you and into the sun. This ensures a good holiday squint and plenty of dark shadows under the eyes. On a digibox, it also ensures that the LCD is facing the sun and is nothing more than a black square with specular highlights. More so, if the user is of a certain age and needs to hold it at arm's length so that focus can be achieved. Been there, done that. So I used the viewfinder and made allowance for the terrible parallax errors that I knew could occur. Many others seem to persevere with the LCD and review/erase/reshoot, which I find to be extremely odd behaviour. > And with the way the market has been going lately, most camera makers could > really use the extra profit. Very true. m ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
