deadwolfbones wrote:
And as for the no EVF bullshit, I guess that means the vast majority of m4/3 and NEX cameras ever sold are also \"dead cameras\"?
I owned a GF1 for a while and never really pined for an EVF.
There are two big differences.
#1 - all micro 4/3 cameras can add an EVF if they don\'t have one natively, excepting the E-P1.
#2 - The NEX and micro 4/3 bodies that don\'t have built in EVFs are small. MUCH smaller than an SLR. It can be forgiven that they are tiny for compactness. I love that my GX1 can be an excellent full featured camera, even for long lens manual focus work when I attach the EVF, but if I want to slap a pancake on it and take the EVF off, I get a very, very small package with great image quality. Heck, I can take my GX1, the Oly 12/2, 17/2.8 and 45/1.8 and fit it into a small belt bag...the lack of an EVF isn\'t an issue here. However, the K-01 is nearly the same size as their flagship DSLR, and will use (except for the 40/2.8) lenses that are DSLR lenses (so no size advantage there, though Pentax does make a few very small primes). So you\'re carrying around this package that\'s the same size as a DSLR kit, but without a viewfinder. For what?
I also had the NEX-5N and while the EVF was by far the best I\'ve ever used, it was also a) still an EVF, i.e., not as good as the worst OVF in my opinion, and b) $300 on top of the camera itself. (This is of course my own personal view of things. I know some people love or at least can tolerate EVFs.)
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but really? The best EVF is worse than the worst OVF? Maybe in clarity, but surely not in usefulness. The NEX and Micro 4/3 EVFs are the same image size as a full frame DSLR, while providing significantly easier manual focusing, better low light viewing and lots of little extras (like live histogram in the VF). I love a good optical view, but after using an EVF like that on my GH2 and GX1, I am shocked whenever I pick up a consumer DSLR like a DRebel, with it\'s super-tiny viewfinder. I can\'t see anyone preferring that tiny little view (that is impossible to manual focus) to the large, bright informative view of a modern EVF. But to each his own.
deadwolfbones wrote:
And as for the no EVF bullshit, I guess that means the vast majority of m4/3 and NEX cameras ever sold are also \"dead cameras\"?
I owned a GF1 for a while and never really pined for an EVF. I also had the NEX-5N and while the EVF was by far the best I\'ve ever used, it was also a) still an EVF, i.e., not as good as the worst OVF in my opinion, and b) $300 on top of the camera itself. (This is of course my own personal view of things. I know some people love or at least can tolerate EVFs.)
There are two big differences.
#1 - all micro 4/3 cameras can add an EVF if they don\'t have one natively, excepting the E-P1.
#2 - The NEX and micro 4/3 bodies that don\'t have built in EVFs are small. MUCH smaller than an SLR. It can be forgiven that they are tiny for compactness. I love that my GX1 can be an excellent full featured camera, even for long lens manual focus work when I attach the EVF, but if I want to slap a pancake on it and take the EVF off, I get a very, very small package with great image quality. Heck, I can take my GX1, the Oly 12/2, 17/2.8 and 45/1.8 and fit it into a small belt bag...the lack of an EVF isn\'t an issue here. However, the K-01 is nearly the same size as their flagship DSLR, and will use (except for the 40/2.8) lenses that are DSLR lenses (so no size advantage there, though Pentax does make a few very small primes). So you\'re carrying around this package that\'s the same size as a DSLR kit, but without a viewfinder. For what?
