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Re: [OM] EVF Rant (Was: For Ken: finally an E1 upgrade)

Subject: Re: [OM] EVF Rant (Was: For Ken: finally an E1 upgrade)
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:25:06 -0400
But I do wonder what is the actual resolution of an OM focusing screen. 
  I've not used any of the high res screens like the OM-D E-M5 has but 
I'm not convinced it's any worse than out little pieces of fogged plastic.

Chuck Norcutt


On 8/25/2012 8:05 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Well said. Very well said.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Aug 25, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Dawid Loubser wrote:
>
>>   I don't want to fly a video game, I want to compose
>> a picture in the context of reality. I want to move my frame around in
>> the beautiful, organic, analogue realm of the photons that are reflected
>> off my subject. I want my eyes to experience the same, actual
>> wavelengths of light. Therein lies the emotional connection with the
>> image about to be made. I don't want those photons captured, quantized,
>> processed, amplified, and re-imagined as a crude grid of luminous pixels
>> at a woefully inadequate framerate.
>>
>> Electronic viewfinders are a low-resolution affront to my photographic
>> senses, and if I were forced to use them I would rather not photograph
>> at all. They are like a pair of fidelity-reducing goggles applied to my
>> vision, and I well and truly hate the experience of using them.
>
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