The advantages of a detailed real-time electronic viewfinder that I see are:
- digital zoom to check/adjust focus "insta-loupe"
- detailed wide visible view
- in low or no light (infrared/night-vision)
- with smaller imager formats
- heads-up view of choseable info
But certainly, 1+MP is needed.
tOM
On Friday, November 07, 2003 at 9:47
C.H.Ling-Accura <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I really doubt the EVF will improve too much in 3-4 years. 200K pixel screen
> has been there for two years (since Dimage 7?)without any improvement. I
> think we need at least 1MP for it to look "ok" and it must be fast (in real
> time like video).
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Winsor Crosby
>
> I agree. I have a Coolpix 5700 with the same evf used by the Sony 717 and
> that Minolta Dimage 7HI. It is not pretty, but it works quite well. The view
> is better than the one in the outside LCD. It even does manual focus after a
> fashion. All it needs is more and finer pixels and it will be quite nice.
> What makes it super right now is how it helps the rest of the camera and
> being able to hand hold the camera at really low speeds and getting sharp
> pictures. No noise. Completely silent unless you opt for a quiet beep. No
> shutter or mirror or aperture jerk. You see exactly what the CCD sees. It is
> bright in low light. Given 3 or 4 more years of development and I think it
> will begin to replace the mirror and prisms of digital slrs, not just a
> better alternative to a poor optical tunnel viewfinder on a simpler camera.
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California
> USA
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