06-04-2014, 07:10 PM
freeradical wrote:
[quote=mrlynn]
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.
True, though my Canon PowerShot A540 had an optical view finder and no real problems with zoom. But it was only 4x optical zoom. Great little camera, until it developed exposure problems. I replaced it with an SLR (Rebel 2Ti) and a Tamron 18-270 lens, but I miss the portability and flexibility of the little P&S. Of course the images with the Rebel are better, but I doubtless miss some by not carrying the heavy SLR as often as I should.
/Mr Lynn