Compact with viewfinder- do they exist?
Posted 30/12/2010 - 17:45
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Current LCDs are quite viewable in daylight - just shield them with one hand if necessary. The compact camera viewfinder looks to have gone.
Best regards, John
Posted 30/12/2010 - 17:57
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Problem with the screens is that they seriously drain the battery. My Sony compact doesn't have a viewfinder, but I'd still like to turn the screen off as many shots I shoot blind or in the general direction of the subject in wide angle.
I have to take at least 2 spare batteries out with me.
I have to take at least 2 spare batteries out with me.
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Posted 30/12/2010 - 18:08
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Smeggypants wrote:
Problem with the screens is that they seriously drain the battery. My Sony compact doesn't have a viewfinder, but I'd still like to turn the screen off as many shots I shoot blind or in the general direction of the subject in wide angle.
I have to take at least 2 spare batteries out with me.
There isn't a problem with the Pentax compacts....
Problem with the screens is that they seriously drain the battery. My Sony compact doesn't have a viewfinder, but I'd still like to turn the screen off as many shots I shoot blind or in the general direction of the subject in wide angle.
I have to take at least 2 spare batteries out with me.
Best regards, John
Posted 30/12/2010 - 20:21
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Does she need a zoom? If not then the Ricoh GR-D has an excellent accessory finder that slips in the hotshoe.
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18 years
Bideford,
Devon
Can I find anything? Not a sausage from a google search or the DPR 'camera finder'
Am I going mad or do they no longer exist?
If they aren't around is there a good reason (i.e. LCD screens on latest cameras now so bright it's not an issue) or is it just cost cutting as only those of us serious enough to be willing to cart around something bulky actually want to be able to see what we shoot in bright conditions?
Does anyone know of anything that fits the bill. The closest seemed to be a Nikon Coolpix P60 but that is now so old it's only avilable from a couple of suppliers I have never heard of.