On Feb 1, 2014, at 8:58 AM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31/1/14, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> I've come across a few that were quite nice, however. > > This bloke seems to think the EVF is something special. Bit of a fanboy > maybe but he's not 100% on it. Interesting take. > > <http://fotografeivindrohne.blogspot.no/2014/01/fujifilm-x-t1-first-hands-on-impressions.html?m=1> A bit, yes. ;-) The EVF sounds like the ones in the Olympus E-M1 and Sony A7/A7r. It might even be the same panel as one of them. This latest generation of EVFs is, to my eye, as transparent as the best reflex finders and more useful overall. They only fall down in extreme niche uses typically associated with very high speed subject motion (the Oly E-M1 negative crowd are all people who use the longest pro FT lenses and shoot birds in flight … SLRs are still the best tool for that niche use). You should go play with one or the other of these bodies, until the Fuji is in the stores to look at too, to see the state of the art. If the Fuji's finder is even better quality, more power to them! If there's one beef I have with all the Fuji cameras of recent years (aside from the weird processing required for the X sensors), and with the Sony A7, it's the placement of the EV Compensation dial. The right-rear corner is just wrong—I have to move my whole right hand to adjust EV compensation, and that's something I do all the time since I use aperture priority AE most of the time. The Sony allows me to re-map this control to the front dial, making it fall to hand easily like it is on the Olympus E-M1 and other cameras I own. I don't know whether that solution is possible on the Fuji. A little thing, but it always irks me. G -- 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.
