Oh, they still can. The D50 viewfinder turned on is smaller and just as dark as the D80 turned off. The Rebel/RebelXT is worse.
-Adam Paul Stenquist wrote: > No, I couldn't turn it on. Apparently no battery. That explains it. I > couldn't believe anyone could sell a camera that bad. > Paul > On Oct 21, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> Costco is selling the 80D with an 18-45 kit lens for $1299. I looked >>> through the viewfinder this afternoon when we were shopping and was >>> shocked. It's absolute crap. Too dim for manual focusing. The camera >>> and lens felt like cheap plastic toys. Not good. >>> Paul >>> >> Paul, >> >> Did you turn it on? The Nikon's use an LED/LCD overlay that's quite >> dark >> when turned off, but is much brighter when turned on (Because the LCD >> goes transparent). The D200/D80 viewfinders are unimpressive when >> turned >> off, but quite decent when turned on. >> >> The 18-55 is crap however, and the 18-135 isn't much better. The 18-70 >> is quite good, if a bit slow at the long end. >> >> -Adam >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
