On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 10:20:04AM -0700, steve harley wrote: > on 2012-02-08 01:44 Cotty wrote > ><http://www.dpreview.com/previews/olympusem5/> > > > >Very cool. > > > >It's a viewfinder Jim but not as we know it.... > > i am impressed by the promised functionality and the straightforward > design; the live curve adjustment feature is nifty, though it's not > clear whether it does anything to RAW exposures > > the swivel screen is a half-measure; i wonder if anyone will dare > eliminate the screen completely in favor of an EVF ? that would be a > very "retro" design
My wife (the nominal owner of the E-PL1) would be very unhappy with a camera that didn't have a rear screen. I don't think I'd buy one, either - chimping through the viewfinder, or simply showing your shots to a colleague before you get to a computer, would be awkward. What my wife would like, apparently, is a rear screen that can be swivelled to point upwards, so she can hold and operate the camera like a TLR. She came back from the figure skating and remarked on that, totally spontaneously. She also came back with almost 1500 exposures. Thats 7GB of space - just as well I put an 8GB card in the camera! She would have shot more, but the battery is only good for around 300 shots, and we don't have a spare (yet), because up to now she's never shot more that 20 or 30 images at one time. The shutter lag of the E-PL1 makes shooting action sports rather difficult, so a goodly proportion of those exposures are failures for one reason or another. But there are enough decent images to be able to put together a gallery to show off (link to follow). -- 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.
