I prefer LCD hood to EVF due to its compactness, and you dont have to crouch while doing low angle shooting.
Not to mention the price difference between EVF and a LCD hood...For the saved money, you can get a lot of good legacy glass. Seriously, I don't understand people, who shoot with the NEX lenses and "need" the EVF for it...
Now I can really understand if someone is not able or doesn't want to spend the money for the EVF. It is expensive. But to prefer a LCD hood to the EVF due to compactness???
Seriously, that is a joke. Whenever I see a LCD hood, to me it looks back in the old days when camera were mounted on tripods and the photographer crawled under a sheet of black cloth....
LCD hoods may be a help in sunlight, but they look quite ugly in my personal view, at least double the size of the entire camera and as far as I understand, block the LCD when folded.
Back to the cost: It is always better to get some bread on the table instead of an EVF
. And everyone is free to spend that money on something else, like Altglas.
But I get the feeling that most who have difficulties understanding others shelling out that money for the EVF, never have tested it. Apart from the advantage of stabilising long lenses, it also eases composition & manual focussing, is way better in terms of resolution and makes usage in broad sunlight perfect.
For me, the best thing is that it looks as good as my fullframe film SLR viewfinder with the advantage of WYSIWG.
As well as helping us photographers with beginning old-age-far-sightedness
