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Re: [OM] why can't Oly do this:

Subject: Re: [OM] why can't Oly do this:
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:20:53 +0100
Ah, I thought the 1.44M *was* the LCD. In which case, double wow.

Piers

-----Original Message-----
From: Jez Cunningham [mailto:jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 20 September 2010 12:46
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] why can't Oly do this:

Nope - according to your pdf it has a 460k pixel lcd on the back and a 1.44M
pixel EVF with liveview.
"WOW"
Jez

On 20 September 2010 13:36, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> By my reading, Dawid, you still don't have it right. The VF is 
> optical, with the option of overlaying the shooting data. The live 
> view image is available on the rear LCD screen. In other words, the 
> hybrid VF does not give a live view image.
>
> Take a look at Fujifilm's promo material:
> http://finepix.com/x100/en/pack/pdf/x100_English_0906.pdf
>
> Link courtesy of Richard Man, late of this list, posted on another list.
>
> An interesting offering - from my experience the EXR imaging engine 
> can give very pleasing results, and the optical VF would overcome the 
> serious shortcoming of the EXR compacts. I wonder what the shutter-lag
will be like?
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dawid Loubser [mailto:dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 September 2010 10:33
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] why can't Oly do this:
>
> My apologies for my mistake, I only now understand the viewfinder on 
> this Fuji camera is a completely new design, a fully hybrid optical 
> (no focusing
> aids) or electronic (live view image + shooting data) finder. That's 
> very interesting, and highly innovative.
>
> Wow.
>
>
> On 20 Sep 2010, at 11:30 AM, Dawid Loubser wrote:
>
>> It's also interesting (and unfortunate) that they chose to make the 
>> viewfinder a non-focusing viewfinder. A rangefinder in this thing 
>> would have made me instantly buy one, for this would probably be 
>> better in most ways than a Leica M8 then :-)
>
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