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Re: [OM] EVF Rant (Was: For Ken: finally an E1 upgrade)

Subject: Re: [OM] EVF Rant (Was: For Ken: finally an E1 upgrade)
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:05:28 -0400
Well said. Very well said.

--Bob


On Aug 25, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Dawid Loubser wrote:

>  I don't want to fly a video game, I want to compose
> a picture in the context of reality. I want to move my frame around in
> the beautiful, organic, analogue realm of the photons that are reflected
> off my subject. I want my eyes to experience the same, actual
> wavelengths of light. Therein lies the emotional connection with the
> image about to be made. I don't want those photons captured, quantized,
> processed, amplified, and re-imagined as a crude grid of luminous pixels
> at a woefully inadequate framerate.
> 
> Electronic viewfinders are a low-resolution affront to my photographic
> senses, and if I were forced to use them I would rather not photograph
> at all. They are like a pair of fidelity-reducing goggles applied to my
> vision, and I well and truly hate the experience of using them.

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