Re: Electronic Viewfinders - The way of the future?
foto-z wrote: mawz wrote:
For critical focus determination? The G1 is better than any 35mm-format SLR OVF already.
I find that very hard to believe. Have you compared it to a Sony A900 for example? (I had a look through one recently - it was quite good but of course I am used to a 6x6 WLF and it still doesn\'t come close ) Sometimes when you are shooting a face, one eye can be in focus and the other one out, for example. You need to see the crispness of eyelashes etc to judge to correct focus. This shot is not wide open but still there is one eye in focus and the other is out. Not easy to tell in this 800 x 600 image:
Yep, I have compared it to an A900 in fact and the G1 won on that specific front (the A900 finder was overall better, it\'s a very, very nice finder and for general use I\'d take it over the G1). It\'s extremely easy to see exactly what\'s in focus even at 800x600. It\'s actually hard to describe since there\'s two interactions that allow you to see focus, one is just seeing stuff which is sharp and the second is an aliasing pattern that is obvious where fine detail comes into focus. The latter is what makes the real difference.
It\'s not up to my 645 though. Nor a 6x6 WLF which is going to stomp over any 35mm-sized finder (the G1 finder is about the same size as a 5D finder, but 100%)
Oct 16, 2009 at 06:14 PM
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) Sometimes when you are shooting a face, one eye can be in focus and the other one out, for example. You need to see the crispness of eyelashes etc to judge to correct focus. This shot is not wide open but still there is one eye in focus and the other is out. Not easy to tell in this 800 x 600 image: