On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Scott Loveless <sdlovel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Adam Maas <a...@mawz.ca> wrote: >> Optical viewfinder yes, compact no. The D50 is an older Nikon DSLR. I >> suspect you're referring to the P50, which should be avoided. Nikon's >> P&S production of the last few years start at bad and get rapidly >> worse. >> >> Optical finders are dying off. Mostly because P&S finders are typically >> horrid. > > Everyone uses optical viewfinders. > P&S makers put crappy viewfinders in their cameras. > Everyone decides that using the stupid little screen is better than > looking through a keyhole. > P&S makers stop making cameras with optical viewfinders because no one > is using them. > > Go figure. >
Well, in their defence, the crappy viewfinders have been around since the 1980's. People just figured out with digital that the big LCD's beat the tiny optical finders they'd been stuck with. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
