06-04-2014, 05:57 PM
mrlynn wrote:
I hate all these cameras with no viewfinders. I find it incredibly awkward to hold a camera (or now, an iPhone) out at arm's length to frame a shot. But it seems as though the whole industry is going in that direction. And when they do include a viewfinder, it's electronic, not optical. Yech. (td)
/Mr Lynn
An electronic viewfinder seems preferable to an optical one for a p&s camera. An optical viewfinder can only be optimized for the short end of a zoom. At longer focal lengths, they would need to have smaller and smaller frame lines inside the viewfinder, which would be very hard to use.