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bvphotos wrote:
This is a question I've pondered for some time now. There are some very nice cameras out there without an EVF. But I can't see myself shooting without a viewfinder. Those of you who have and like VF-less cameras (like X-A1, A5100, EP5, etc.), what do you do in order to not miss needing a VF? How do you shoot in bright daylight or in low light where holding the camera steady at arm's length becomes very difficult (at least for me)?
While I was an early EVF adopter, I have gradually started preferring the LCD over EVF. Today I rarely use the EVF on my A6000. To me the ability to have a direct eye contact with the subject instead of hiding behind the camera, is very useful. And so is the ability to see "outside the frame". This is specially useful for longer FLs where your field of view through the lens becomes pretty narrow. For video it is even better.
Unless I am in direct mid-day sunlight, I have not found the LCD view-ability to be an issue in broad daylight.
Similarly I don't get the notion of why an LCD camera needs to be held at an arm's length. I hold my mirrorless cameras pretty much the same way as my DSLRs with my elbows tucked into my body for support and have not seen any evidence in my shooting to suggest that I get any more blur in my shots with the A6000 than my D7000.
What all of that means is that I am more than willing to sacrifice the EVF to gain smaller size and lower cost. In case of A6000 I would prefer if they allocated that real space to a larger LCD instead of the tiny LCDs they include in their APS-C NEX's.
Edited on Dec 03, 2014 at 04:14 PM · View previous versions
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