On Fri, May 22, 2009 15:54, Don Roberts wrote: > Among others, I use a Konica/Minolta A2 which has a pretty good EVF. > For me it is still a compromise. I used SLRs for so many years and now > use DSLRs a lot that I like the viewing through the pentaprism or > whatever configuration they use now. Perhaps it is my 70 year old eyes > that makes the difference but I don't like guessing what I am shooting > all that much. Eyes certainly make a difference. My eyes have had me move to much more dependence on AF, when I found I was getting unreliable focus manually. (Only 54, too). I'd been shooting SLRs for 31 years when I got my first digital camera in 2000, so I think I was pretty used to it. But going from my first digital P&S to a DSLR was an interesting exercise. The images were much better, and there's more flexibility -- but a lot of things about the DSLR, including the weight, and the need to get my eye to the viewfinder, and the noise, strike me as serious problems now. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
