Re: I don't want a DSLR

In article <aGPjf.26345$q%.19650@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Joe Petolino <petolino@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Yeah, I wonder how much longer DSLRs will be around. A mechanical
>mirror-and-prism arrangement really seems anachronistic in a high-tech
>21st century camera. I'm guessing that by the time the current
>generation of SLR users fades away, the optical viewfinders on top of
>the line interchangeable-lens cameras will have been replaced by
>high-quality electronic viewfinders.

Do I get my flying car and personal robot first?

> * no real-time histogram or digital image preview.

No digital image preview. Damn. How did I ever live without a grainy,
pixelated, poorly white-balanced and laggy view of the scene I'm about to
take a picture of? It's been so awful, having to actually look at what the
sensor is about to see and interpret it with my own eyes all these years - I
can't begin to describe the trauma.

> * can't easily magnify the image for manual focusing.

This is a lot like the problem that light bulbs have when compared to
candles - you can't easilly light the filament with a match.

>If the manufacturers put a little effort into it, I'm sure it won't
>be long before the image quality of a good EVF exceeds that of an
>SLR viewfinder.

I don't want an EVF. The optical viewfinder in my camera works very well. I
don't want to spend money solving a problem that I don't have.
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