On 12/5/09, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: >I had another look at the Lumix G1 yesterday. >It's still a shitty viewfinder. >I can see the thing refresh, and it's really jiggy. >They need to get a whole lot better than that before they are really usable.
The electronic viewfinder I use on my TV camera is this one: <http://www.creativevideo.co.uk/public/view_item_cat.php? catalogue_number=sony_dxf-20w> it's a high resolution CRT monitor (black and white means easier focussing - with peaking, a sort of 'unsharp mask' for edges that are in focus) and it's still not the easiest thing to focus in tricky light. Since I acquired a small HD video camera, I am learning about lower quality EVF use. The small camera has a flip-out LCD that is reasonably good 2.8" 208,000 pixel colour screen, and a much smaller .4" 235,000 pixel screen down a cupped eyepiece. The quality is simply not good enough to use for critical manual focus control in HD as is - so they have a focus aid whereby the monitors are turned to monochrome, and a system of red 'highlights' defines the edges of anything in focus. In practice it works very well and I use it always. I do not know how it would be possible to accurately focus manually otherwise, and I can only assume that still cameras with EVFs must be the same. Of course, you have focus confirmation with optical VF systems, do they have this with EVFs as well? (NB I do not use autofocus with moving images - video - ever. Any hunting or change of focus would simply ruin the shot.) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
