Re: Recommend a good hybrid (UK)

James Silverton wrote:
dj_nme wrote on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:11:02 +1000:

James Silverton wrote:
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Fair enough but I was, perhaps imprecisely, using "analog" in
the sense of a non-digital, mechanical method to direct the
image to the eyepiece. I don't how Olympus' semireflecting
mirror would be classified.


The same as the Canon Pellix and EOS-1n RS, they're still SLR cameras.Even if the lens can't be interchanged, as in the case of the Olympus ZLR cameras.

No argument! I suppose the distinction might be between mechanical (eg. moving mirror) and digital reflex cameras. I don't think there is a digital viewfinder that fully compares with a mirror but it will happen, I believe.

Maybe.
Hopefully the Olympus Mu4/3 cameras will have something suitable?

The best EVF that I've used is on the Konica-Minolta Dimage A2, it was/is 640x480 pixel (300k pixels, but marketed as 900K pixels by counting the RGB sub-pixels) and even that really is nowhere close to being useful for manual focus without the "focus zoom" trick that a lot of this type of camera (bridge/EVF digicam) have.

A proper replacement for an optical TTL viewfinder (as found in a [d]slr camera) would have to be of very high resolution.
Perhaps at least 1200k pixels (at least twice the linear resolution of the A2's EVF) and maybe a lot more to be as good as an average SLR viewfinder.
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