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E-PM2 and LCD viewfinders

Started Jul 21, 2014 | Questions thread
Klarno
Klarno Veteran Member • Posts: 4,239
Re: E-PM2 and LCD viewfinders

The only things I really use my touchscreen for on my E-PM2 are occasional touch focus/touch shutter, and changing shooting modes, and swiping through captured photographs. During shooting, the camera is fully usable with buttons alone. If you use the SCP, the touch screen is only half-functional anyway-- you can tap the screen to highlight a setting but you need to press a button anyway to actually do anything with the setting. Using the 4-way controller/jog wheel works better for me in most cases.

I tried the VF-2 on my E-PM2 before I sold the VF-2, but I found that the control layout was a little too cramped on that camera to be used with a viewfinder in the same axis as the lens (I won't say whether rangefinder or SLR style is fundamentally better, but I will say that a corner viewfinder is better on rangefinder style cameras and a lens-centered viewfinder is better on SLR style). But it was only a 30 second trial as I was already selling the viewfinder, I'm sure one could adapt to the cramped feeling.

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