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x20 - where are the raving reviews about the viewfinder?
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1. Maybe in the appropriate forum?
First, it's not the same kind of viewfinder at all -- the X100 lets you have electronic live view through the eyelevel viewfinder, or a straight optical viewfinder. Second, there have been few reviews one way or the other. Third, it seems as if most people who take digital pictures never used an actual viewfinder film camera. (In the proper vernacular, a single-lens reflex is a single-lens reflex, a rangefinder camera has a proper rangefinder visible in the viewfinder or, as in the case of early leicas, press cameras, and some others, next to it, and a viewfinder camera has an optical viewfinder. Optical viewfinders have never been entirely accurate. Haven't been because they can't be. Such is the nature of parallax in its many forms -- even when, as with later leicas, it changes as the distance focused changes, it will never provide exactly what will appear in the picture.)
That having been said, here's a pretty good review of it:
That having been said, here's a pretty good review of it:
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Adam-T
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What forum do you expect the X20`s Viewfinder to be discussed in ? , Nikon Lens Talk ? , Leica ?
bluewater77
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You said it almost all, I was „raised“ or am old enough to have used those cameras, and I can't live without it. So the X10 vf was already a big help, but now having information in the viewfinder is really great for me, changes everything. The focus points are not exact but you get used to it. You have a warning for parallex, so you can use the LCD to get the right picture. All in all, for me this could be „the“ camera for eyeryday and even a bit more.
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JJJRRR768
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It is a different VF than the 100, only optical, it has data in it, if you have been reading all of the posts you would have come across very good reviews of the VF, you have to read all, you will not find a title about the VF. So while you read about people bashing the camera you can read about how nice the VF is (the bashing does not seem to be deserved either, it is mostly by 1-4 people, generally the same ones.
PAUL TILL
Veteran Member
YES.
Peter Bendheim
Senior Member
If you want the features of the X100, then pay X100 prices...
Actually it's pretty good for a compact, and entirely unique as a viewfinder in a compact, no other compact has this sort of info on an optical screen. It's actually pretty special.
Actually it's pretty good for a compact, and entirely unique as a viewfinder in a compact, no other compact has this sort of info on an optical screen. It's actually pretty special.
Adam-T
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IS the Central AF point in there - because that was needed more than anything in the X10 and all compact OVFs because you haven`t a clue what you`re focussing on otherwise
JJJRRR768
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bluewater77
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He is one of the four.
My Bad. Somehow mistook it for the X System form. :-(
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JJJRRR768
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bluewater77
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depsribe,
can you adjust the X20 in any way that you only get the center point. I always get a variation of 1, 2 or even 4 AF sqares? I would rather have just one.
can you adjust the X20 in any way that you only get the center point. I always get a variation of 1, 2 or even 4 AF sqares? I would rather have just one.
The center box, ala the focus box in a leica or the focus box in an X100 (which, with the parallax box turned on produces a double box -- why you can't turn off the first one I do not know, but that's the X100 and therefore I digress) is, yes, a rectangle. You want just a point? I've not seen or used anything that does that. Unless I terribly misunderstand the question, which is highly possible.
AngryCorgi
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