With the capability of Live View and MF Assist, you have your choice to use what's appropriate when you want to, that's all. If you've never used a camera that has the facility, you can't know how it will be useful to you ... it is a paradigm shift.
Regards battery life: The Panasonic L1 has a 1500 mAh rated battery. On a recent landscape shoot I used the camera on a tripod in Live View mode exclusively. I recorded about 650 exposures per fully charged battery. Without Live View enabled, I get about 750 exposures per charge. So it's fairly efficient on power management. Godfrey On Aug 22, 2007, at 5:10 AM, Steve Desjardins wrote: > Maybe I would adapt, but for me most situations are either too fast to > be checking the LCD or slow enough to just pop off a few shots and > look. > I usually check the histogram once I get in a new lighting > situation or > if I think the meter can't handle it. I have the enlarge button set to > the max so I can check AF if that's an issue. Mostly, however, I want > to spend my time looking through that nice optical viewfinder I > paid so > much money to get. I've used EVF cameras and they work fine for > everything except MF. I guess if you had a continuous histogram on > the > LCD you could easily sneak a peek and b sure about your exposure but > that could also be one more thing to obsess over. Maybe a tiny > histogram in the corner of the viewfinder? > > I also wonder how the batteries would hold up. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
