Steve Cottrell wrote: >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.
It already is considered the norm my millions of people. Despite what Don says, I read one review of the Pentax K-01 that put the lack of an optical viewfinder as one of the big *positives* about the camera. Amazing to me but that's the younger generation for you: they find an optical viewfinder to be a colossal waste of space & money. I got to play around with a K-01 at GFM last year. I loved everything about it except the lack of viewfinder. Even at the blow-out prices we've seen recently I couldn't convince myself to buy one because of that. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
