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A 'DSLR' with EVF, will it ever happen?
- Thread starter Steen Bay
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in principle nothing (except cost) precludes the compact-detect AF to be as
fast as phase-detect, but much more accurate; however, failing this, such
super-compacts will be only good for static scenes (in a DSLR sense of the
term - just look at 3-6 fps action shots to see what I mean), so... in a way
whey WILL by crippled dslrs,
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Steve Balcombe
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I guess it remains to be seen how small they can go, but I'm hoping for something as small as a traditional film compact - not the tiny matchbox-sized things they sell today. I think we've forgotten what compact means, now that the market is swamped with sub-compacts.
I meant compact like the G7/G9. This technology will be as big as, or larger than the S2/S3/S5.
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Lee Jay
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W Keith McManus
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Please, no EVF viewfinders for serious DSLRs. If you want that there are plenty of amateur cameras you can buy now...
Steve Balcombe
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I hope I'm right, but fear that you are.
The lenses, which we so far know nothing about, will make a huge difference. When I bought my 400D it was to replace a Fuji S602Z, which is at the small end of the 'bridge' camera range. It could reasonably be described as a compact with a big lens. Fitting my old 50/1.8 MkI to the 400D, it was overall almost exactly the same size as the Fuji. Both those cameras are sold now, so I can't show you, but the similarity was quite surprising. If Olympus can lop 20 mm off the thickness of my 400D, and produce a lens which is half way between the S602Z's and the EF 50/1.8 (ok slightly fanciful perhaps) then we would be pretty close to my ideal.
Let's just hope that the damn' thing doesn't use XD cards. Or Micro SD.
Steen Bay
Veteran Member
And btw Lee Jay, it's possible to get zero lag with an EVF. The 'EVIL' can start to take pics to the buffer as soon as you half-press the shutter button, and then, when the picture is taken, the camera will save exactly what you saw in the EVF, although it might have happened 1/10 second before.
quite a deterrant, for some it stops them to even consider such an uglies,
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Steve Balcombe
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The XSi/450D doesn't use XD or Micro SD. It uses SD.
Roger Nordin
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This would be incredibly useful already on the LCD of a the 40D LiveView when doing handheld MF focusing...
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Steen Bay
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With an 'EVIL' it's also possible to take the photographers response-time (0,1-0,2 sec?) into account, so an EVIL can actually be better to 'Catch The Moment' than a DSLR!
Shutter lag isn't the issue, even with current compacts. Auto-focus speed and viewfinder lag are the issues. The time between a movement of my hands and the response of the LCD/EVF creates an inability to tightly frame fast-moving subjects, and slow and insensitive autofocus means the subjects end up OOF unless extremely deep DOF is used.
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Lee Jay
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That is quite a lens collection for a 10 year old!
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I meant that I have to wear glasses since I have been 10 years old - I'm not a native englisch speaker so give me some leeway if I get my grammar wrong once...
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