Rob wrote: RB> There is nothing to say you could not have an electronic viewfinder and RB> get rid of the mirror/prism altogether. That way you could have DOF RB> preview without the finder going too dark to use it! Of course screens RB> would have to get much better for this.
...way much better, to the point it will concur the image sensor in price. I submit there is virtually impossible to focus accurately with an electronic viewfinder and a 35mm (system, not focal length) lens. Besides DOF being very small compared to most digicams (which are not accurate in manual focus either), the image rendered on the LCD is heavily changed both in sharpness and contrast. I'd rather pay for an uncompromised, decent optical viewfinder than for a mystifying LCD that may tempt the manufacturer to add it all sorts of gizmos / games / news channel / videophone and God knows what else. Sorry to be carried away - I'm especially bitter about this point after seeing how Pentax embraced this trend with the overspecified but heavily compromised *ist. Servus, Alin
