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Sequential EVF "tearing" effect - reality or myth?

Started Apr 19, 2016 | Polls thread
jalywol
jalywol Forum Pro • Posts: 12,301
EVF problems vary
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Different people are sensitive visually to different things.

For instance: The VF-2, while very clear and without rainbow effects, always gave me a wicked headache when I used it. The VF-4 was perfectly fine. The EVF on the A7 is fine, too.

All of the Panasonics (except for the GH3, which had that dreadful OLED EVF with the fuzzy sides, GX8, and GH4) have/had field sequential EVF's. The only one that ever bothered me at all was the one in the GX7. Sure, I would see the rainbow effect on all of them on occasion, but not frequently, and since that effect doesn't give me a headache, it doesn't matter to me. Not sure why the GX7 version was so awful, though...maybe just the 16:9 ratio combined with the eyepoint and the uncomfortable plastic housing. For some odd reason the tiny one on the GM5 doesn't bother me at all, so not sure why the GX7's did.....

-J

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