On 8/1/13, Don Guthrie, discombobulated, unleashed: >I have tried the K-01 and do not miss the finder at all. Every review I >have read echos my experience.
Just thinking further on this for a moment. If optical viewfinders had never existed, we wouldn't miss them. Then along came a camera with one built in, and you pick it up and tell us that your new camera with no rear LCD is kinda cool, and you don't miss it at all. My point is, if the designers and manufacturers made only cameras with no OVFs, then eventually people would accept it as the norm. To a point, this has been happening - especially with the advent of mobile (cell) phones becoming important cameras for most people. No room for an OVF on a cell phone, no worries, they'll use the LCD screen. Camera makers think hey! Make more cameras with no OVF - they don't need them, they're happy using LCDs - look at them all using their phones like that! So more and more point n shoots with just LCDs, until they are virtually ALL without OVFs. Except one or two have decided 'actually no - the OVF is not actually dead yet - there is still a desire out there for them'. And not just a small hole with a couple of bits of plastic shoved in either end, but actually usable optical finders that can display image and data info. You want my take? In a year's time we'll see quite a few more pointnshoots (and indeed slightly higher up the pecking order cameras) coming out with an OVF. I would put money that the next gen of MX-1 camera will have one. Fuji are blazing quite a little trail here..... -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) | Web Video Producion ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
