I tried a mirrorless. Have you?

RBIV wrote:

Phil A Martin wrote:

hikerdoc wrote:

flektogon wrote:

But one thing I am sure on 100%. The EVFs will become more and more advanced and the OVFs more and more expensive . This is clearly seen on the K3/III price. And I am sure that I will survive with my Pentax cameras, but they will be dead at the same moment when I am gone. My kids/grandchildren, whenever they grab my camera(s), they are willing to use only LV mode. When I point them to look through the OVF, they reply: are you kidding grandpa .

I have same experience with my children and grandchildren. I can not even give them recent bodies and lenses and expect them to be used. Regarding OVF and pricing. The new OVF is often stated seemingly as THE main factor for K3-III pricing. While it adds cost I can not believe it is adding hundreds of dollars to the price people were hoping to pay. I think people were looking for a camera that was competitive and performed at a certain level and were offered that camera at a price cameras at that level are introduced at. Extensive development costs for a relatively low volume probably play a big part as well.

Because the responses of untutored and inexperienced children, trump the opinions of experienced photographers.

I have to say my experience matches what flektogon and hikerdoc say. These kids have experienced digital screens all their lives, and OVFs are weird to them.

My little experiment over Christmas holidays at my daughters home, I put a Nikon Z and Pentax KP both with zooms on the table and for 2 days played "Shoot the Dog." Lot's of kids high school and college age gave them a try, and all but 1 or 2 preferred the Nikon with it's EVF finder. Several excellent shots, and a couple of the kids said, hey, this is really cool I'd like to get a real camera like this -- plus several had some excellent images they showed me on their cell phones. So they do know *something* about image taking and are keen to learn more.

The dog had a GREAT time.

Well, on the other side such a viewfinder is just an auxiliary tool. There is no such rule that the better viewfinder the better pictures! And the current (young) generation grew up with the electronic displays, so they automatically grab what is close to them. Like we, the old generation prefer what we were growing with up.

And they (young generation) are actually right. Such electronic viewfinders have almost unlimited ways to get better and better. To gain not only higher quality of viewing, but to get a lot of useful features well. So, if the best EVFs haven't yet surpassed the best OVFs, withing a few years they will! This is guaranteed.