Re: Unfortunate for P&S

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:48:11 GMT, James Silverton wrote:

michael wrote on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:08:35 +0100:


"measekite" <inkystinky@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Many point and shoot cameras including Canon are being
released with nice features and wider to longer zoom lenses
but without viewfinders. Being sold with larger 3" LCDs, the
mfg claim they are much improved and have good visibility in
bright sunlight.

They may be improved but the visibility is still not up to
snuff in bright light.

Why don't these mfg realize the big advantage for many of a
viewfinder. It would be nice for them to improve the
viewfinder and place all of the necessary information in the
finder as well.

I know that the majority of snapshooters do not use a
viewfinder preferring to hold a camera at arms length and
forgo a sharper image even with image stabilization. But
there are still many who need to have a viewfinder available
in many situations.

Canon does have it on some models and not on others. It is
unfortunate that on the model with a 28mm EQ wide it is
missing.

How many readers in this ng would find the lack of a
viewfinder in a P&S a negative?

In theory there's no reason why manufacturers couldn't produce
a hood with the necessary optic, to clip in place on the back
of a point and shoot, over the screen. As an accessory. It
would need to be quite long around 9". I made one myself out
black polyboard, using a jewellers eyeglass as the optic.
Fixed to the screen of a lumix bridge camera by using the
tripod thread underneath. This camera has a satisfactory
viewfinder but I needed a better method of reviewing shots in
situ in strong light, so as to be able to determine whether
any more would be necessary. Mainly museum objects and
buildings.

Actually, I've seen such hoods on sale at Ritz but I don't know how well
they work.

They work OK, just not too good if the resolution of the LCD
is low, you tend to see bigger pixels rather than fine detail.
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